“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?”
Some bloggers are News Rewriters and they, too, can be held liable if they distribute incorrect information (libel, defamation, and invasion of privacy)…
By contacting me today, this author may have avoided a lawsuit, or two, or a few.
“I realized later that maybe I was not supposed to do that. I tried for find the original artists to ask permission but…”
“I am in possession of a journal that was published in the 1940’s. Is something like this publishable?”
“I have not seen anything in writing about who owns the rights to the manuscript…”
What is a literary trustee and where can I find one?
The absence of substantial similarity proved fatal to Author’s copyright violation claims.
