Problems created by ebooks

1. Is that your book? On content &
carriers
Mathias Klang
@klangable

2. Copy as property

3. The book which you are reading
aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
while you read it so badly, it
begins to be yours.
Martialis (40 – 100 ad)

4. Copy as power

5. “To every cow its calf and to every
book its copy.” Diarmuit Ui Neill,
high king of Ireland (ca 561 AD)

6. In 561 AD, the High King and Abbot Colmcille engaged in battle on the
slopes of Benbulben. Aided by an angel, Colmcille won, thousands of
men were slain and the King forced to concede the copy of the psalter to
Colmcille.

7. Copy as Social Good

8. STATUTE OF ANNE (1710)
Wheras printers, booksellers, and other
persons, have of late frequently taken the
liberty of printing... books, and other writings,
without the consent of the authors... to their
very great detriment, and too often to the
ruin of them and their families: For
preventing therefore such practices for the
future, and for the encouragement of learned
men to compose and write useful books…

9. The digital is the original
& everything is copy

11. hollerith

12. The greatest
copy machine

15. 2011
2010
2009200720021999
1993 2004

16. no copy:
content licensed,
not sold

17. What do we own?

18. ”It was as if a light had been Nookd
in a carved and painted lantern....”

19. Norwegian case

20. Impact on culture:
what to read

21. Copy as problem:
Information overload

22. Impact on culture: Saving your
library

26. Privacy

27. Mathias Klang
klangable.com
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