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“Filled with wisdom and thought experiments and things that will mess with your mind." — Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American Gods In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today — about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next. This book is DRM-free.

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Con questo volume si conclude il prezioso lavoro di catalogazione della corrispondenza di Giuseppe Dessí conservata all'Archivio Contemporaneo 'Alessandro Bonsanti' di Firenze. La ricerca, avviata nel 2003 da Chiara Andrei con l'edizione delle Corrispondenze familiari (Firenze University Press) e proseguita nel 2009 da Francesca Nencioni con la pubblicazione delle Lettere di amici e lettori (Firenze University Press), trova il suo terzo volet sempre grazie a Francesca Nencioni, che ha schedato i materiali inediti dell'attività editoriale e professionale corredandoli di esaustivi regesti. Le lettere consentono di tracciare un profilo dell'autore dalla giovinezza fino agli anni '70, parlandoci del contesto storico-politico-culturale nel quale si svilupparono vicende e attività sia del 'primo' che del 'secondo mestiere'. Si chiariscono così, oltre alle complesse vicissitudini professionali, le modalità della collaborazione di Dessí a giornali e riviste, i rapporti con le case editrici, i contatti con il mondo dei mass media ... Di particolare rilievo l'appendice di inediti che, per l'attenta cura di Monica Graceffa che l'ha fittamente annotata, propone la corrispondenza con due riviste decisive degli anni '30-40 come «L'Orto» e «Primato». Sullo sfondo le figure di Bottai, di Vecchietti e i complessi problemi della convivenza degli intellettuali del tempo con il regime.Francesca Nencioni, dottoranda in Italianistica all'Università di Firenze, fa parte di un gruppo di ricerca diretto da Anna Dolfi che lavora all'edizione e catalogazione di testi contemporanei. Si è occupata degli epistolari conservati nel Fondo Dessí (A Giuseppe Dessí. Lettere di amici e lettori. Con un'appendice di lettere inedite, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2009) e ha pubblicato il carteggio di Aldo Capitini (Lettere a Giuseppe Dessí 1932-1962, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010). A sua cura il catalogo della mostra su Dessí allestita all'Archivio Contemporaneo Bonsanti (Firenze, SEF, 2010) e l'introduzione e le note ai Diari 1952-1962 e 1963-1977 (Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2011). Dopo una serie di contributi su Paese d'ombre apparsi in rivista o in raccolte miscellanee, si occupa adesso della prosa dell'ermetismo.Monica Graceffa, laureata in Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea alla Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Firenze, fa parte di un gruppo di ricerca diretto da Anna Dolfi che si occupa di edizione, ordinamento e catalogazione di testi contemporanei. Sua l'edizione del carteggio Delogu-Dessí (Giuseppe Dessí - Raffaello Delogu, Lettere 1936-1963, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2012).

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This book imparts the fundamental legal understanding required for the purchase and sale of marketing rights for publishing house products. The aim is to enable the reader to competently deal with publishing contracts of every kind. Specific areas of focus include classic copyright and publishing law, the role of collecting societies, issues related to subsidiary rights and their exploitation, as well as questions regarding royalties.

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Authors are sometimes so grateful to receive a publication offer that they may be tempted to sign the first version of a publication contract that they receive, especially if negotiating seems complicated, intimidating, or risky. But there is a lot at stake for authors in a book deal, and it is well worth the effort to read the contract, understand its contents, and negotiate for favorable terms. A publication contract outlines what rights you are granting to your publisher and on what terms. If you sign away all of the rights in your book to the publisher for the life of copyright, this will preclude you from certain future uses of your work. Even if you don't have any future plans for your work, you may still regret transferring all rights if your publisher does not make full use of them, your book falls out of print, or sales drop. And the grant of rights clause is only one part of the contract that deserves your careful attention. The terms of the contract can also dictate the specifics of how you will be paid for your book, how much input you have in the appearance of your book, your commitments relating to the manuscript and future works, who is responsible for legal claims stemming from your book's content, how your book will be promoted, whether and how you can regain control over the rights to your book, and much more. Happily, authors have something of value to bring to the negotiating table (your copyrights!) and negotiation provides the opportunity to establish the terms that it works for you as well as for your publisher. Our publication contract resources empower you to understand and negotiate a publication contract that benefits you, your publisher, and readers--and ultimately increases the impact of your book.

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