copyright laws are the centre of this dispute. Hamish McDonald, the author still own the copyright in the book.
But in fact, Harper Collins (owned by the Australian multi-billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a copyright monopolist) does have the publishing rights to publish this book in India. ( Likely the rights were sold to HC by the Australian publisher, Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia) as it is usually publishers and not authors who handle the sale of publishing rights.) Hence, the most important "propertiness" of this book in India is owned by Harper Collins. And hence, copyright is an important issue. And I should add with HC having the exclusive publishing rights in India, if an another publisher tried to have the book distributed in India --- as Author says he would like to happen in the HT article ---- such a step would likely be in breach of the presumably exclusive contract (for India) that HC has. Now Hamish McDonald could go to court to try to have the HC publishing contract ripped up ( because it is NOT fulfilling its contract to publish the book in India) but does he actually have sufficient funds to launch such a lawsuit against HC? I very much doubt! In a legal fight between McD vs. HC I would bet, with some amount of confidence, on McD losing. The simple fact that someone has copyright in something ( as McD has in his book) does not actually mean it can be exercised ( in this case to have the book published) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
