“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…”
“Another author published a book in 2015 that has the exactly same title as my book, which was published in 2010.”
“If Amazon can blatantly rip off a vendor’s hard-line design, what’s to stop them from hijacking an author’s book?”
By contacting me today, this author may have avoided a lawsuit, or two, or a few.
Aside from the copyright infringement implications, I have a moral problem with this as well…
Can I hire an artist to re-draw the characters I found on the Internet?
Can I publish somebody else’s old journal/diary?
“I have not seen anything in writing about who owns the rights to the manuscript…”
When Microsoft, Adobe, and other firms starting offering their software in download-only format, and for a monthly or annual fee, I got really, REALLY mad!
What is a literary trustee and where can I find one?