Showing posts with label Authors Guild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authors Guild. Show all posts
Saturday, October 10, 2020

No Old Chestnuts

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 Titles matter. Originally, this short article was to be "Autumn Opportunities", then "Chestnuts" but "Chestnuts...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

National ? "Emergency"?? Library???

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The Authors Guild is asking all comers to sign a petition. Link: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-our-open-letter-to-internet-arch...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Bad Behaviour In High Places

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According to the DOJ, "Thomas Jefferson wrote: 'The most sacred duty of government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all ...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

A Good Take-Down (DMCA related)

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This week, I had a most excellent experience of the Take-Down kind with Scribd. A Google Alert  informed me (a daily occurrence) that one ...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

#WhyWritersMatter

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Do you think that writers matter?  Do you think that that which writers write is more valuable (or should be considered more valuable) than ...
Saturday, May 07, 2016

Hope For A Copyright Small Claims Court

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According to the Authors Guild, it costs approximately $150,000 for a copyright owner to take a copyright infringer to court. As I pointed...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Seizing "Snippets" And World Civilization

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The Authors' Guild is disappointed that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals did not view as infringement Google's activities in copy...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Forced Consent

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Forced Consent.  Now, there's an oxymoron for you, but that is exactly what "Consent Decrees" are--in my opinion--and I am tal...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Are You Thinking Of Joining the Authors' Guild?

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The Authors' Guild is a professional association for authors which offers such benefits to members as: • Free legal help on writin...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Congress, Close Those Pirate-Friendly Loopholes, Please!

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For the benefit of authors and interested readers of this blog who are not members of Authors' Guild, I am sharing recent news from th...