Pls. visit the site and sign: < http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/lawrence-wishart-no-copyright-for-marx-engels-collected-works?share_id=OQnQedHpEd&utm_campaign=share_button_action_box&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition >.
It is immensely ironic that a private publishIng company is claiming the copyright of the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the philosophers who wrote against the monopoly of capitalism and its origin, private property, all their lives. *Marxists Internet Archieve*<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE_V8oG0ab_gq7kL9z8mo97uPLOGw> is an internatioanl, public archieve which gives free access to a wide range of academic and historical writings about Marxism in multiple langauges. *Lawrence & Wishart*<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lwbooks.co.uk%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHpOIkM5tubJOodzDdCmTdbhZ3wyA> is a private publishing house in Britain which claims to hold the copyright of Marx Engels Collected Works. During the last several years, the* Marx Engels Collected Works*<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Farchive%2Fmarx%2Fworks%2Fcw%2Findex.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGT8cI3xfwL-0FOdRDqhPYPacvA4Q> have been read by the millions of people on the Marxists Internet Archeive (MIA). However, now the private publishing company, Lawrence & Wishart - which loves to position itself as a 'radical company', claiming historical links with the Britain's Communist Party - has directed MIA to delete all texts originating from Marx Engels Collected Works (MECW). If this happens, MECW would not be accessible on the internet for free, from 30th April, 2014, and that would be a huge loss for the students and political activists who continue to utilize this free academic source. You cannot privatize their writings -- they are the collective property of the people they wrote for. Privatization of Marx and Engels' writings is like getting a trademark for the words 'socialism' or 'communism'. Say NO to the copyright law for the founders of scientific socialism. Let's protest against Lawrence & Wishart for this ironic monopoly. END http://boingboing.net/2014/04/24/radical-press-demands-copyrigh.html Radical press demands copyright takedown of Marx-Engels Collected Works Cory Doctorow <http://boingboing.net/author/cory_doctorow_1> at 9:54 pm Thu, Apr 24, 2014 Lawrence and Wishart, a radical press founded in 1936 and formerly associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain, has asserted a copyright over "Marx-Engels Collected Works," a series of $25-50-ish hardcovers, and demanded that they be removed from the Marxist Internet Archive <https://www.marxists.org/>. As Scott McLemee notes<http://crookedtimber.org/2014/04/24/karlo-marx-and-fredrich-engels-came-to-the-checkout-at-the-7-11/>, the editions in question were "prepared largely if not entirely with the support of old-fashioned, Soviet-era Moscow gold" and consist, in large part, of arguments about the moral bankruptcy and corrupting influence of claims of private property. Marx-Engels Collected Works will be removed from Marxists.org on May Day.Here's a torrent<http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6231000/Marxists.org_-_full_English_language_archive> of the full set. If Lawrence & Wishart still considers itself a socialist institution, its treatment of the Archive is uncomradely at best, and arguably much worse; while if the press is now purely a capitalist enterprise, its behavior is merely stupid. I hope some of you will get in touch with the press to say that, or something else appropriate. Here's the contact information: Lawrence & Wishart 99a Wallis Road London E9 5LN subs and orders: T: 01621 741607 editorial: T: 020 8533 2506 F: 020 8533 736 Managing Editor: Sally Davison. [email protected] Finance Director: Avis Greenaway. [email protected] Permissions: [email protected] Website: Becky Luff [email protected] Promotions: Katharine Harris [email protected] Marxists Internet Archive is available at<http://www.marxists.org/>. Sukla -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
