cry for help against the giants

This is for the benefit of all writers published or not. Critters.org has done a lot and continues to do so for writers around the world, and now Mr Burt is asking for help. If you have the time, can you take a look at this site and lend him your support



[Please read & pass along the below, thanks! --aburt]
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Need your help re Google/Amazon!

(Summary: Please sign & promote the petition at:
http://new.petitiononline.com/cocoa/petition.html )

Hi all, the COCOA (Copyright Owners' Control of Access) Association could
sure use your help.

Summary:

We're trying to get Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. to allow
copyright owners to exercise their legal right to control what's
shown via systems like Google Print & Amazon's Search Inside
The Book. The COCOA Protocol is the means to do that. Copyright
owners use it to say, "Show *this* part of my book(s)" -- be that
100%, 99%, 75%, on down to 0%. (Compare to the current choices
of 100% or 0%, which leaves many books at 0%. See
www.CopyrightAccess.com for full info.) The result will be not
just legal access, but access to far more copyrighted material
than now. Everyone wins.

We need your help in moving these behemoth corporations:

1) Please SIGN THE PETITION at:

http://new.petitiononline.com/cocoa/petition.html

It's worded for brevity; the details are at the COCOA web
site: http://www.CopyrightAccess.com

2) Please SPREAD THE WORD: Urge others to sign the petition,
learn about COCOA, and likewise encourage others to sign
the petition, spread the word, and urge yet others to..........

Please post on your blogs, tell journalists you know,
put links on your web pages, etc. You may copy this description
in full if you like.

The COCOA Association is a non-profit organization established
by representatives from a number of authors groups, publishers,
and publishing industry experts. It serves as a central point for
information on COCOA and distribution/authentication of COCOA records.
COCOA was crafted by people ranging from "copyright conservative" to
"copyright liberal," giving this consensus design widespread appeal.

Thanks for your help! Please sign! Please spread the word!

--Dr. Andrew Burt
Chair, The COCOA Association