“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…”
copyrights
How to Waste Months of Your Life Writing a Book You CAN’T PUBLISH!
“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…”
Don’t “Poo-Poo” This Story About Bookstores!; Christian Kids’ Book is a Best Seller; Russian Reporters Fight to Survive; Let’s Cancel Mozart???; …and MUCH MORE!! – In the news – 04/08/21
A whole new meaning to “Toilet Read”; Captain Underpants’ “Passive Racism”; Amazon Fired Workers Illegally; and “Satan Shoes” Cast Down by Judge
“Can I sue an author who gives their book the same title as mine?”
“Another author published a book in 2015 that has the exactly same title as my book, which was published in 2010.”
Court doesn’t like Garamond font; Publisher threatens HBO over use of audiobook; and MORE! – …In the News – 03/18/2021
Newspaper must post apology on front page; Speedy Gonzales defended; Amazon price fixing?; Anti-American books on Navy reading list; Quick copyright lawsuits, and more!
Can Amazon Steal Authors’ Books, and Republish Them?
“If Amazon can blatantly rip off a vendor’s hard-line design, what’s to stop them from hijacking an author’s book?”
“I won’t earn a profit on my book so I can use other authors’ works under fair use copyright law, right?”
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…
Amazon Pays Employees to Leave; White House Aide: “I Will DESTROY You”; Congressional Attacks on Free Speech – In The News – 02/26/2021
MORE: Facebook is changing; Amazon Top Executives Leaving; Google Angers French Media; and Amazon Sues to Stop Lawsuit
Posting “Read-Aloud” of Children’s Books on YouTube – Good Idea or Not?
Aside from the copyright infringement implications, I have a moral problem with this as well…
“I created characters for my book from images I found online. Was that copyright infringement?”
“I realized later that maybe I was not supposed to do that. I tried for find the original artists to ask permission but…”
