Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Authors opt out of Google Book Settlement

A recent article in The Guardian talks about the thousands of authors who have opted out of the Google Book Settlement.

Should you have opted out? The deadline was January 28. Register now for the next talk in The Writing Life series to hear Jan Constantine, General Counsel and Assistant Director of The Authors Guild, discuss what writers need to know about the settlement.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Print and Digital Piracy

...is scary. On Tuesday, Maria Danzilo and Patrick Murphy of John Wiley & Sons gave a great talk in the Whitridge Room about how the rise in pirated content (and the proliferation of peer to peer networks) is impacting the market for published work.

Email me at writers@nysoclib.org if you'd like a copy of the handout with the self help tools that Wiley & Sons put together and has made available for the use of all authors.