“Can I publish a book of baseball cards?”

“I’m helping a friend assemble a baseball book and he wants to include photos of Topps Baseball cards…”
“I’m helping a friend assemble a baseball book and he wants to include photos of Topps Baseball cards…”
“I recently retrieved my dusty copy of (the author’s) original synopsis and first chapters I produced and decided I wanted to continue to make it into book. I have tried to contact the originator by letter and email…”
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“Another author published a book in 2015 that has the exactly same title as my book, which was published in 2010.”
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“If Amazon can blatantly rip off a vendor’s hard-line design, what’s to stop them from hijacking an author’s book?”
To be completely honest, questions like this always make me cringe. By contacting me today, this author may have avoided a lawsuit, or two, or a few…
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Aside from the copyright infringement implications, I have a moral problem with this as well…
“I realized later that maybe I was not supposed to do that. I tried for find the original artists to ask permission but…”