A judge has ruled that Googlebooks doesn’t violate authors’ copyrights. The Authors Guild disagrees.
•Speaking of copyright, the Trans Pacific Partnership will impose stringent copyright requirements on all nations that sign it. That includes the alleged victim of infringement being able to demand massive amounts of information about you and anyone else they claim is involved, plus very steep penalties.
•A woman is suing Universal for trying to force YouTube to take down a video of her baby dancing, which had the copyrighted song Purple Rain in the background. Here’s the most recent report on the case.
•Mystery author Barbara Ross on your protagonist having a very good reason why they’re investigating the murder. I think this might be useful for fantasy/SF stories where the protagonist is a normal person drawn into the weirdness (like my Southern Discomfort—I’m keeping this bookmarked for a bit).
•John Scalzi on how many books you can write in a year.
•When is it right to throw a pop-culture reference into a story?
•Once again, a male SF author discusses how women can’t do SF right. As noted at the link, this will be a big shock to Leigh Brackett and CL Moore, among others.
•A look at calculating reward levels and fundraising in Kickstarter so you don’t wind up paying too much for mailing out the rewards (among other traps) Just in case you’re in a crowdfunding mood.
•If you’re a journalist, here are some good FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) decisions from earlier this year.
Your ink under ‘discusses how women can’t do SF right’ leads to a copy of the previous lik about pop culture references.
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