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Bagaimana Menghadapi Penerbit Modal Copy Paste Ya?
Apr 17, '09 11:30 AM for everyone

Di blog dan milis, sudah sering kita mendengar sekarang lagi trend penerbit modal dengkul yang menerbitkan buku resep dengan cara copy paste dari blog, MP atau milis teman-teman kita.

Mereka makin lama makin berani saja, bahkan ketika ditegur pun kabarnya mereka berani bilang bahwa itu sah-sah saja. Sebab internet katanya adalah 'public domain' - anda boleh akses dan download sesuka anda. Bahkan -ironis-nya- mereka biasanya toh pasang disclaimer di bukunya: dilarang mengutip dan ancaman hukuman denda Rp 1 M atau kurungan.

Benarkah demikian adanya ttg public domain?
Coba simak kutipan yang saya ambil dari sini:

Freely obtained does not mean free to republish.

These factors have reinforced the false notion that "freely obtained" means "public domain." One could argue that the Internet is a publicly available domain, not licensed or controlled by any individual, company, or government; therefore, everything on the Internet is public domain.

This specious argument ignores the fact that licensing rights are not dependent on the means of distribution or consumer acquisition. (If someone gives a person stolen merchandise, it is still stolen, even if the receiving party was not aware of it.) Chasing down copyright violations based on the idea that information is inherently free has become a primary focus of industries whose financial structure is based on their control of the distribution of such media.[36]
(Almost) everything written down is copyrighted.

Another complication is that publishing exclusively on the Internet has become extremely popular. In countries party to the Berne Convention, an author's original works are covered by copyright as soon as the work is put into a "fixed" form; no formal copyright notice or registration is necessary.

But such laws were passed at a time when the focus was on materials that could not be as easily and cheaply reproduced as digital media, nor did they comprehend the ultimate impossibility of determining which set of electronic bits is original.

All Internet postings (including blogs and emails) are copyrighted material unless explicitly stated otherwise.[36]The distribution of many types of Internet postings (particularly Usenetarticles and messages sent to electronic mailing lists) inherently involvesduplication. The act of posting such a work can therefore be taken to imply consent to a certain amount of copying, as dictated by the technical details of the manner of distribution. However, it does not imply total waiver of copyright.[36]

Untuk tujuan yang Non Komersil, mungkin anda boleh pakai dengan menyebutkan sumber-nya, tapi untuk tujuan Komersil, tentu tidak bisa bilang bebas karena itu public domain. Anda yang bergerak di bidang hukum dan konsen masalah ini, coba tolong dipelajari lagi.
Sebab, kalau di Yahoo.Groups, ada klausa di sini:

Kalau ndak sempat baca semua, baca sajah nomor 12:
NO RESALE OF SERVICE - You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service (including your Yahoo! ID), use of the Service, or access to the Service.

Adakah cara kita menghadapi penerbit colong-colong begitu?
Mestinya ada.

Kita bisa kompak, semua masyarakat blog, MP atau milis, bersama-sama, memboikot mereka untuk jangan beli buku mereka. Kita foto cover buku mereka, buktikan bagian mana yang hasil copy paste. Lalu sebarkan ke milis-milis dan blog-blog teman-teman kita semua, serukan semua teman kita untuk tidak beli buku tsb.

Kalau bisa, kita juga hubungi toko-toko buku, pengecer atau toko-toko lain yang menjual buku hasil bajakan tsb. disertai buktinya, tentu. Supaya mereka tidak menjual buku-buku hasil bajakan tsb. Gunakan koneksi yang ada di antara teman-teman kita ke toko-toko buku tsb.
Kalau ndak ada yang mau beli, mestinya penerbit itu rugi sendiri toh? Biar saja buku-bukunya dijadikan bahan ganjel meja butut mereka tuh!
Bagaimana menurut anda?

Diijikan mengkutip dari Waroeng Ophoeng
http://ophoeng.multiply.com/journal/item/347/Bagaimana_Menghadapi_Penerbit_Modal_Copy_Paste_Ya