COCOA is a silly organization that is pushing for Amazon, Google, and other services that provide indexes and excerpts from books to abandon this perfectly legal notion in favor of a cumbersome process whereby any author could demand that scanned page images of parts of their
books not be shown — for example, you could say to Amazon, you can only show pages one through 23 of my book. (The founder of this org previously patented a software method for progressively ruining ebooks as a means of discouraging people from reading books they find online — thanks, just what authors need in a dwindling-readership universe).
In response, award-winning science fiction author John McDaid has proposed to form KOKO, Klutching Obsolete Krabs of Ownership, which petitions those who buy books to promise to voluntarily eschew reading or looking at whatever pages the authors specify:
Copyright owners use it to say, "Only allow people who have purchased my book to let people look at *this* many pages" – be that 100%, 99%, 75%, on down to 0%. (Compare to the current choices of whatever you want to read.)
The result will be not just legal access, but access to far more copyrighted material than now. War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Everyone wins.
