Hey all.
What follows is one of about 75 e-mails that I received from Scribd...
Dear snafu-solomon-blogspot-com,Long story short?
Scribd's automated copyright protection system identified a book in your Scribd account as a copy and a possible copyright infringement of a book distributed through Smashwords. As a result, Scribd has proactively disabled access to the copy of the book titled "Marine Corps Operations" (id: 25408427) in your account and will be replacing it with a version distributed through Smashwords.
Scribd has recently signed an agreement with Smashwords to offer many of their titles as part of our subscription reading service. As part of this agreement, we are removing all detected copies of the Smashwords books and replacing them with the Smashwords distributed version.
If you are the author of this book, you don't necessarily need to take any action: by default, your copy will simply be replaced by the Smashwords copy. If you would like to restore your version on Scribd, please forward this notification to copyright@scribd.com with a brief explanation of the situation. A member of our copyright team will review the matter, confirm your status as the author, and work with you to re-instate the content.
For more information about Scribd's relationship with Smashwords, please see this article: http://blog.smashwords.com/2013/12/smashwords-signs-distribution-agreement.html. For more information about Scribd.com's copyright policy in general, there are several articles available at http://www.scribd.com/copyright.
Best regards,
Scribd can suck a dick.
They're blacklisting open source materials? Fuck them! All I have on my Scribd account are Military Manuals, Govt Brochures, Weapons Brochures etc...
NOTHING COPYRIGHTED to an individual!!
If you enjoy my stuff then get it before midnight tomorrow. I'm looking for a new home for my content and will give you the location once my migration is complete.
Oh and I gotta say it again.
FUCK SCRIBD!
Kinda like walking into your grandson's school with a US Marine T-shirt on and getting kicked out for the crossed rifles in the Weapons training battalion emblem inscribed upon it.
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What was it Obama or an Obamabot said?
The Citizens don't need to hear all the news that's out there for their own good.
Phuc scribd indeed with a tent stake.
OH ITS ALL ABOUT WANTING TO INCREASE THE BOTTOM LINE! sad thing is they're gonna find out real quick that people have choices on the internet. thats why they're so desperate to pass a global internet tax. but i make a small stand with the bastards at Scribd. fuck them with a tent stake? nope. the business end of an entrenching tool if i'm feeling charitable.
DeleteSolomon, you should actually respond and request that the government public domain material you have be white listed. This is less Scribd's fault and much more the sleazy biz practices of a company called 21st Century US Military Manuals which basically copies US Gov military manuals and adds some additional formatting. This is obviously causing the automated copyright infringement system issues. There really is no man in the loop system with these systems because it simply is not feasible.
ReplyDeleteCompanies like 21st Century US Military Manuals needs to die a slow and painful death.
i did respond and gave up after replying to 25 of those false e-mails. i counted the number of military manuals (both Army and Marine Corps) along with armored vehicle brochures, concepts developed by the various services and official histories and came up with well over 300 items on their website.
Deletei'm not going to refute 300 items and then go through with a pencil the other 300 that are on there.
you have a good point ATS but Scribd can still suck a dick.
You can still publish these on Lulu, which will take you to iTunes, B&N, and Kobo (Amazon, too - but they don't like public domain, so may reject them.) GooglePlay will also take public domain books.
ReplyDeleteI just started getting some really weird emails from Scribd, replacing books with "Smashwords" editions that don't exist under their "copyright violation" banner.
I quit Scribd a couple of years back over their "filter" issues like this. Plenty of other ways to publish books that aren't so damned oddball.
Outstanding.
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ReplyDeleteWow, that is some old bullshit.
ReplyDeleteScribid can go choke on one.
Solomon,l I hope you can find another service like Scribid without all the BS.
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