If You Receive a Copyright Infringement Notice by Email, Do NOT Click on the Link!!
We received the following FAKE copyright infringement accusation this week via email…
legal
She’s my friend so she won’t sue me for what I wrote about her, right?
We’ve heard of family members suing authors for what was written, even when names were changed.
“Can I publish a book of baseball cards?”
“I’m helping a friend assemble a baseball book and he wants to include photos of Topps Baseball cards…”
How to Waste Months of Your Life Writing a Book You CAN’T PUBLISH!
“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…”
“Can I sue an author who gives their book the same title as mine?”
“Another author published a book in 2015 that has the exactly same title as my book, which was published in 2010.”
Can Amazon Steal Authors’ Books, and Republish Them?
“If Amazon can blatantly rip off a vendor’s hard-line design, what’s to stop them from hijacking an author’s book?”
BLOGGERS BEWARE: Re-writing “News” Can Get You Sued…for Libel
Some bloggers are News Rewriters and they, too, can be held liable if they distribute incorrect information (libel, defamation, and invasion of privacy)…
I won’t earn a profit on my book so I can use other authors’ works under fair use
By contacting me today, this author may have avoided a lawsuit, or two, or a few.
“I created characters for my book from images I found online. Was that copyright infringement?”
“I realized later that maybe I was not supposed to do that. I tried for find the original artists to ask permission but…”
“Can I publish somebody else’s old journal/diary?”
“I am in possession of a journal that was published in the 1940’s. Is something like this publishable?”