Magic wand and e-reader in hand, Harry Potter returned to the spotlight on the publishing industry stage this week. Pottermore, the official digital home of the seven-novel series from J.K. Rowling launched this week. In the days ahead, when talk turns to evil-doing, it’s likely to involve old “you-know-what” – that’s right, DRM.
In her review of the latest Publishers Weekly reviews, Rose Fox notes the arrival of Paul Goldstein’s Harlem Requiem, in which an intellectual property specialist helps an elderly Cuban musician seek rights to music he and friends wrote in the 1940s and ’50s. A law professor, Goldstein, “excels at making the dry subject matter of his professional expertise both accessible and fascinating,” she reports.
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