Published on January 21, 2021
amazon, legal, libel
Amazon selling products promoting violence against certain groups; Woman gets 43-year prison sentence for insulting king; Rioters targeting journalists??; and the man who kept C.S. Lewis’s legacy alive.
Published on January 7, 2021
legal, libel
NYT accused of publishing communist China propaganda; US newsrooms continue to bleed journalists; Court fight over media access to cour cases; Twitter sued by computer repair shop owner; Woman find herself the object of elaborate fictional narrative/video posted online; and Court says libelous statements can’t be hidden from public
Published on November 19, 2020
copyrights, legal, libel
Didn’t Watch the Movie – Waiting on the Book!; Will Simon and Schuster be Bought?; New Demand for Storytelling Podcasts; Did a News Article Drive Cryptocurrency Value Down??
Published on November 12, 2020
legal, libel, social media
Facebook Loses Court Case; Parler Signups Surge After Election; Is this Judge racist???
Published on November 5, 2020
legal, libel
MORE: Internet platforms throttling free speech; When medical journals publish false data; Co-founder of publication quits after being censored; Anti-Semitism has no place in the news industry…or ANYWHERE; How to respond to negative online posts; and Johnny Depp may have destroyed his entire career by filing a libel lawsuit.
Published on October 23, 2020
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MORE: Internet Archive puts future ownership of books in question; Internet Archive scanning 70K books from a college library!; Amazon employees want paid day off to vote; Libel can cost more than you think!; Using copyright law to eliminate criticism?!
Published on October 23, 2020
author, legal, libel, Print on demand, self-publishing, storytelling, traditional publishing, writing career advice
“I’ve written a book that contains lots of stories about people I’ve know. A friend told me to set up an LLC and then can’t get sued. Is this true?”
Published on October 15, 2020
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MORE: Justice Thomas Wants to Review Online Immunity; Don’t Beat up YELP Commenters; Unemployment Scheme at Colorado Newspaper?? – In The News- 10/15/2020
Published on October 9, 2020
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MORE: L.A. Times is hiring ONE PERSON; Website claims embedding photographer’s Instagram post is “fair use;” Author sues athlete for pulling out of co-authored book deal; Man accused of cheating at poker sues for libel/defamation; Politician wants to change libel laws
Published on October 1, 2020
author, legal, libel, self-publishing, writing career advice
I received an email from a woman who claims to have written a book about her channeled conversations with deceased celebrities. Whether you believe in channeling (a two-way conversation between the living and the dead) or not is irrelevant…