Links of Interest: November 8, 2023
The latest in traditional publishing, audio, legal issues, culture & politics, marketing, and libraries.
The latest in traditional publishing, audio, legal issues, culture & politics, marketing, and libraries.
A key question to be answered, not all that simple: What constitutes human creation?
BookBub, Open Road Media, and Ingram all offered presentations on selling books via email advertising.
At the end of 2022, Canada changed its copyright laws so that books, songs, and plays will enjoy an additional 20 years of copyright protection.
This year, works published in 1923 enter the public domain.
The Copyright Claims Board is less expensive and more accessible than federal court. But a few of its provisions may cancel out the benefit.
When the CASE Act passed last year, it put in place a new “small claims court” system at the US Copyright Office.
The new system is designed to enable small-scale copyright claims by authors without lawyers, but anyone can opt out of the process—possibly undermining its benefits.
Rather than having to file a costly case in federal court, authors can now bring cases, without an attorney, to a Copyright Claims Board.
US-based authors can now register up to 50 short works published online with the US Copyright Office for a single flat fee of $65.