Lawsuit

Demos Parneros Files Wrongful Termination Suit Against B&N

28 August, 2018 // 7 Comments

The publishing industry had more questions than answers when Barnes & Noble abruptly fired its CEO last month. Demos Parneros was terminated with no notice or severance package, leaving everyone [Read More ...]

Cockygate: Faleena Hopkins Has Registered a Trademark on Cocky, and is Using it to Threaten Other Romance Authors

5 May, 2018 // 81 Comments

Trademark bullying is a pox on industries ranging from breweries to whatever over-priced junk Monster Cable is making this week. A trademark bully's ostensible goal is to keep consumers from getting [Read More ...]

DragonCon Invites the Infamous Lori James of All Romance eBooks as Author Guest

2 May, 2018 // 7 Comments

All Romance eBooks was at one time a leading romance ebook retailer, but by the time it shut down in late 2016 it was clouded in scandal. Not only had authors gone unpaid for months (some for over a [Read More ...]

Amazon Seeks Court Confirmation of Arbitration Ruling, Inadvertently Shows Just How Badly-Run the Kindle Store Is

5 April, 2018 // 10 Comments

behind the scenes in the Kindle Store In September of last year Amazon filed for arbitration against several companies that were using various nefarious means to scam the Kindle Store. Now Law360 [Read More ...]

Graffiti Artists Triumph Over NY Developer Who Destroyed Their Work

14 November, 2017 // 4 Comments

The only branch of law that is more obtuse and arcane than copyright is property law, so when the two intersect there is no easy way to predict what will happen. The Guardian reports that a New [Read More ...]

A Ruling in ReDigi Case Can’t Re-Open the Door to a Used eBook Market – The Door Never Closed

23 August, 2017 // 8 Comments

Over at PW Andrew Albanese is asking the wrong question about used ebooks. He looks at ReDigi's ongoing appeals of the copyright infringement suit it "lost" in 2013 and asks whether: Should there be [Read More ...]

PBS Station Sues Levar Burton Over Control of “Reading Rainbow”

10 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

Vulture reports that the station that had originally produced the Reading Rainbow show (and owned the concept, trademark, episodes, and other IP) is now suing Burton over his newly launched podcast: [Read More ...]

Audible, Amazon Hit With Class Action Suit Over Disappearing Credits

13 March, 2017 // 7 Comments

I am not the first to complain about Audible stealing credits away when a subscription is canceled, but thanks to a newly filed class action suit I might be the last. LAw360 reports that a California [Read More ...]

HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case

7 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

HarperCollins was the only one of four major Canadian trade publishers to sit out the negotiated settlement with the Canadian Competition Bureau in January. This week it announced that it would [Read More ...]

Textbook Publishers File Suit Against Amazon Marketplace Sellers for Alleged Piracy

24 January, 2017 // 6 Comments

Cengage, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson have started a new round of lawsuits against textbook sellers. The Financial Times reports that this time around the publishers are targeting defendants who sell [Read More ...]

Canadian Regulators Reach Deal With Apple, Publishers on eBook Pricing Controls

20 January, 2017 // 6 Comments

There is much gnashing of teeth today in Toronto as the Canadian Competition Bureau defeats Kobo's years-long effort to avoid competing with Amazon. Canada's business competition watchdog said on [Read More ...]

Class Action Suit Filed Against All Romance eBooks

15 January, 2017 // 17 Comments

When it shut down just over 2 weeks ago, indie ebook retailer All Romance eBooks gave customers just 3 days to download their purchases, and more importantly, it offered publishers and indie authors [Read More ...]

US Supreme Court Declines to Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield

9 January, 2017 // 1 Comment

For the past several years a number of parties have been trying to use the courts to invent loopholes in Section 230 of the CDA. This law creates a safe harbor which protects websites from being [Read More ...]

Author Drops eBook Royalty Suit Against S&S Over Book It Doesn’t Publish

9 August, 2016 // 0 Comments

The most bizarre publishing lawsuit of the year has just gone on hiatus. Earlier this year author Sheldon Blau filed a lawsuit against Simon & Schuster over the ebook rights to his 1997 book [Read More ...]

Paramount Says Star Trek Axanar Copyright Lawsuit Is Not Over

17 June, 2016 // 17 Comments

Around this time last month news stories circulated with the claim that the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Paramount against the fan film Axanar was about to be settled. Alas, that hasn't [Read More ...]

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