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We received the following FAKE copyright infringement accusation this week via email…
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“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?”
