1st Lady Settles Suit, Printing Plant Goes to Pot, Media Layoffs, VPNs Targeted, Congresswoman Deletes Tweets, Apple Privacy Bug, Publisher Sued by Printer for $15M; Teens Robbing Newsstands in NY
It feels like we’ve been watching an episode of American Publishing’s Most Wanted. Not many news stories have had me fired up as much as this one!
I hated to be snarky (actually, I didn’t hate it that much) but I had to tell her that…
“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?”
Amazon kills CreateSpace, forces authors to KDP Print – and people are UPSET!; Tate Publishing owners – will they EVER go to trial?; TrueLine Publishing employees claims she was drugged at Christmas Party; and more juicy stories!
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?
Authors claim Amazon banned all of their books for “no reason” * Book pirates call authors “elitists” after website gets shut down * Public figure being scrutinized after writing tell-all book * Subpoena by Tweet! * “Fair Use” Battles * Judge blasts newspaper for publishing legally obtained info.
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!
