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TODAY, Saturday, July 11th, 2020, is the WritersWeekly.com Summer 2020 24-Hour Short Story Contest! The topic is posted right here. |
Google finds a work-around for new law; Publishers are selling LOTS of books this year!; Instagram “copyright infringement” phishing scam; Errors in published books embarrass publishers and authors, AND MORE!
“I want to include scans of newspaper articles in my book. Since my book is non-fiction, will the educational exception to copyright law apply?”
MORE: Parenting book author accused of abandoning “11-year-old” adopted daughter…but is she really 11?; Author accused of plagiarizing AND quoting sources that don’t exist?; EU says re-selling ebooks is illegal; Feds sue Snowden over his memoir; Editorial cartoons finding new life online; Google ranking sites featuring syndicated content over original publisher’s links?; Librarians are ANGRY about delayed ebook publication by publishers.
MORE: Indie bookstores and industry leaders furious at Amazon for violating book embargo (if you don’t know what that is, read this!); If you get your morning paper in your undies, you probably do NOT want a free doorbell from Amazon; MSNBC sued for outrageous allegation; “Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken;” Politician sues CBS and we’re betting that gets thrown out of court. And, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, MISS THIS AWESOME OBITUARY!
MORE: First Christian florists and bakers, and now movie-makers not allowed to choose their own clients; Print and audiobook sales UP; Dumb magazine photoshops teen’s head onto nude body; Russian blogger imprisoned for REALLY stupid Tweet.
MORE: Amazon can’t police its own illegal product offerings yet the government wants to put it in charge of our data?!; Americans are doing less reading, and more listening; When publishers print without thinking; and MUCH MORE!
Let us all collectively slap our foreheads together for this one!
MORE! Amazon drivers part of $10 million theft ring?; BIG newspaper merger; “Stairway To Heaven” lawsuit to continue; Suing repeatedly for copyright infringement after making your product easy to steal?; Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit revived by a court
MORE! Street artist sues Walmart, Ellen Degeneres; 1st Amendment protects Wikileaks and Facebook; Flaunt Magazine co-founder leaves; Charging for online newspaper prescriptions is not a good idea; Gawker lays off entire staff.
Includes a complaint template letter that will make them sweat!
