Typical Ursula.

Miracle Jones blogs about the petition against the Google Book Settlement created by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, winner of five Hugo awards and six Nebulas. Leguin is urging professional writers who are opposed to the terms of the settlement to sign her online petition before the January 28th deadline. From the petition: “The free and open dissemination of information and of literature, as it exists in our Public Libraries, can and should exist in the electronic media. All authors hope for that. But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it or own legitimate right in it. We urge our government and our courts to allow no corporation to circumvent copyright law or dictate the terms of that control.”

What nonsense. “We urge the government and our courts to allow no corporation to… dictate the terms of that control”? That’s practically the definition of copyright law: allowing corporations to dictate the terms of control.

“We cannot have free and open dissemination of information… without control.” Typical. We cannot be free unless someone is controlling that freedom. What a nonsense, backwards idea of freedom.