What I want to do is put my aunt’s three books into the public domain now, and make them available through digital preservation efforts. But, I first need to prove that I actually have the right to donate them…
“My friend left his book rights to me via an email message, and verbally. The estate claims it belongs to them. What do you think?”
We launched this service to counter the greedy rights’-grab currently occurring in the industry…
I sued my publisher (Tate Publishing) for 5 counts of breach of contract, including stealing all the royalties, and won. I just learned from a friend that she ordered my book on Amazon and got it…
When registering a copyright for a book, nobody waits for the government anymore…
Authors often think they can use emails from readers for marketing purposes without asking permission.
Did the cousin, who is now deceased, do this on purpose? And, what recourse does the co-author have?
Old yearbook photographers could seriously get into the litigation business with all of the copyright infringement occurring online right now!!
Can you pull short stories from the Internet and include them in your book? NO!
I know an author needs to copyright a book in order to sue anyone who might try to steal it. What about short stories? How does an author protect himself with that type of writing?
