Posted on 08/19/2019 9:06:26 AM PDT by DFG
In George Orwell’s “1984,” the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” one true believer exults.
Now some of the writer’s own words are getting reworked in Amazon’s vast virtual bookstore, a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway. Orwell’s reputation may be secure, but his sentences are not.
Over the last few weeks I got a close-up view of this process when I bought a dozen fake and illegitimate Orwell books from Amazon. Some of them were printed in India, where the writer is in the public domain, and sold to me in the United States, where he is under copyright.
Others were straightforward counterfeits, like the edition of his memoir “Down and Out in Paris and London” that was edited for high school students. The author’s estate said it did not give permission for the book, printed by Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary. Some counterfeiters are going as far as to claim Orwell’s classics as their own property, copyrighting them with their own names.
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I never thought that the elites would use 1984 as a how-to manual. :-(
I never thought that the elites would use 1984 as a how-to manual. :-(
No rewrite is required. Leftists like Hillary think 1984 is a how-to manual instead of dire warning.
Lol, I was far more impressed she had listened to any of my husbandly blathering about constitutional rights and such!
She’s a good painter, but you’re a better reader:)
There is a book called “The Store” by James Patterson that will scare the ever livin you know what out of you. Pretty clear that it is his view on Amazon.
They have priorities: making money, silencing conservatism.
That is not sarcasm. I mean that.
I'd think the estate of George Orwell would be suing Amazon for violating their eternal copyright. That's a battle I'd like to see. Maybe an organization as large as Amazon could lobby for reforming copyright law in America as something that is in its own best interest.
Read later.
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