{"id":1442,"date":"2012-01-26T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T08:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T13:02:19","slug":"pullman-voices-opposition-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-voices-opposition-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman voices opposition to government copyright plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Pullman has added his voice to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktrade.info\/index.php\/showarticle\/38455\">growing concerns<\/a> amongst authors that proposed changes to educational copyright will have a significantly detrimental effect on the income of many writers. \u00c2\u00a0Pullman commented on the proposals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;While I agree that schools and other institutions should not be unreasonably charged for the use of books and other published material, or find it unnecessarily difficult to obtain permissions, I maintain that it&#8217;s essential that the originators of such material should be fairly paid for it&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pullman was joined in his protests by other noted children&#8217;s authors such as Anne Fine and Julia Donaldson, along with thousands of other writers whose works are widely used in schools, all fearing that the government&#8217;s proposals to expand educational copyright exception will undermine the incentive for writers to provide valuable materials for children. Science textbook writer Ian Graham expressed this concern most clearly, telling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/pullman-offers-school-textbook-authors-a-vital-lesson-rebellion-for-beginners-6294628.html\">The Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why inventors, musicians and software writers can protect their ideas and work but the value of an educational writer is now so low that we [cannot] protect our &#8230; creative work. Or is the Government planning to tell Microsoft that schools can pirate as many copies of Microsoft Office as they like?&#8221;<\/blockquote \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Pullman has added his voice to growing concerns amongst authors that proposed changes to educational copyright will have a significantly detrimental effect on the income of many writers. \u00c2\u00a0Pullman commented on the proposals: &#8220;While I agree that schools and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-voices-opposition-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}