Publishers Sue WeLib for Copyright Infringement - Publishers Weekly

It's been a long day.

Panzer's last stop for today was at the Publishers Weekly site. There he found a post about a lawsuit against another alleged pirate site.

 

 According to the post, 13 publishers have joined together to sue the WeLib site for pirating millions of books and other materials. Included in the post is a link to a lawsuit the publishers won against another pirate site a month ago.

 

Panzer says, "They just shut down one pirate site and another one pops up."

 

Note: This is a short medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a chocolate chip cookie (biscuit) to snack on. 

 

to read the post tootle over to Pirate Site Welib 

Authors v. Anthropic Copyright Piracy Lawsuit Speeds Ahead - Publishers Weekly

This year has gone by so fast.

Panzer found an interesting post at the Publishers Weekly site today. The post is about the lawsuit against Anthropic.

 

According to Jim Milliot's post, Anthropic is appealing the judge's ruling to allow the case to become a class action lawsuit. Included in the post are links to other information about the lawsuit.

 

Panzer says, "It sounds like they might think they're going to lose the lawsuit."

 

Note: This is a short-medium length post. Bring a glass of lemonade and two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) to snack on.

 

To read the post tootle over to Copyright Piracy Lawsuit 

Authors Win $7.8 Million Default Judgment in Global Piracy Lawsuit - Publishers Weekly

As  Panzer was taking his noon nap today he rudely shaken from his kitty bed by clapping and cheering coming from the Catosphere. Hopping into the Panzermobile our brave kitty boy followed the ruckus to the Publishers Weekly site. There he discovered a post about a judgment in a global piracy lawsuit was causing all the joyful noise.

 

Library? No. Piracy site? Yes.

The post by Andrew Albanese says the lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild, Amazon Publishing, PRH, and several authors against the KISS Library for ebook piracy has been decided. The judge decided the KISS Library is an ebook piracy site. KISS Library was ordered to shut down all domain sites. The owners of the site were also ordered to pay $7.8 million.

 

Panzer says, "Piracy is stealing and when you're caught you will pay."

 

Note: This is a long-medium length post. Bring a cup of cocoa and a piece of chocolate cake for today's reading selection.

 

To read the post tootle over to global piracy lawsuit

Authors Guild, Amazon, PRH File Suit Against E-book Pirate Site - Publishers Weekly

Today Panzer decided to make a stop at the Publishers Weekly site. With hardly any digging in the posts our traveling kitty boy discovered one about an effort by Amazon, the Authors Guild and publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) to close down the piracy ebook site KISS Library.

Stealing is stealing.

According to the Publishers Weekly Staff post, the Authors Guild, Amazon and Penguin Random House have filed a lawsuit against the ebook piracy site KISS Library. The KISS Library is located in Ukraine. The KISS Library uses other sites such as Kissly.net, Libly.net and others to sell illegal, pirated ebooks to buyers in the U.S. The post includes a link to the Authors Guild's announcement about the the lawsuit and also included is a link to the court filing.

Panzer says, "Don't they realize that by stealing my ebooks they're taking the food right out of my kitty dish?"

Note: This is a long-short length post. Bring a cup of tea for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links included in the post, bring another cup of tea and a muffin.

To read the post tootle over to  Authors Guild, Amazon, PRH

Authors Guild Petition to Close the National Emergency Library - Authors Guild

When Mom wasn't looking Panzer checked her email account and found an email from the Authors Guild about the Internet Archive's (IA) National Emergency Library. Panzer has posted about the Internet Archive and its National Emergency Library before.

It make this little kitty so angry.

According to the email Mom got, the Authors Guild has put together a letter to the Internet Archive asking them to close the National Emergency Library. Some of the reasons listed in the letter are that the National Emergency Library isn't a library at all it is a piracy site instead. This is because the site is committing copyright infringement by having authors' copyrighted works for free download without the authors' permission and without payment to the authors. After you read the letter there's a place at the top to the right to add your name and email to submit your name to the letter. (Be sure to click Submit.)

Panzer says, "It's not a library! Libraries don't steal the books!"

To read and sign the Authors Guild's petition tootle over to Open Letter
To read Panzer's previous post about the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library (with other links included there), tootle over to Internet Archive

eBook Piracy - How to Respond If Someone Steals Your eBook Online - The Digital Reader

As Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere he decided to make a stop at The Digital Reader site. With a little digging in the posts our kitty boy found one about what to do when you find someone has pirated your ebook.

Why do humans steal?

According to The Digital Reader site owner Nate Hoffelder's post, he recently discovered someone had pirated one of his ebooks. Since this necessitated the filing of a DMCA take down notice, he decided to describe the process. The three possible types of locations of the pirated material are described. It's then explained how to determine where to send the take down notice. The last section of the post contains links to companies or people who will do the work for you, if you don't want to.

Panzer says, "This is the kind of information all authors need to know."

Note: This is a long post. Bring two cups of tea and three muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to eBook Piracy Online:

Argh! Is Piracy a Problem for Novelists? - Travels with Kaye

Panzer was just settling down for a nice nap when he heard strange sounds coming from the Catosphere. Hopping in the Panzermobile he followed all the noises to the Travels with Kaye site. There our adventuresome kitty discovered a post about copyright infringement and pirate book sites.

Something else to worry about.

According to author and site owner Kaye George, it just might not be worth the effort to go after book pirates. Maybe, getting the extra reader attention from the pirated book might be a bonus instead of a detriment. The post includes links to other sites with opinions on both sides of the issue.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty has never looked to see if his books have been pirated. Maybe he should?"

Note: This is a medium post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links and read the other posts, bring a thermos of tea and half a dozen muffins.

To read the post tootle over book piracy

Kindle Counterfeiting - A Growing Threat to Authors

Panzer made a short trip into the Catosphere. Our kitty boy stopped in at John Doppler's Words on Words blog. Digging around he found a post from August of last year that indie authors need to be aware of.

You better watch out.

According to the post, there's a counterfeiting piracy scheme going on. What happened to author Rebecca Merry Murdock is used as an example. A scammer stole her ebook and royalties. They did this by uploading a copy of the ebook and then making a duplicate sales page. The sales page got connected to her author page. Ms. Murdock was able to track down what was happening and contact Amazon. If she hadn't been checking her ebooks, she never would have know what happened.

Panzer says, "We better all check our ebooks just to make sure it's not happening to any of us.!"

Note: A cup of tea and a muffin should do for today's reading session.

To read the post, tootle over to Kindle authors