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

20 January, 20177 March, 2017Lawsuit, Price Fix Six6 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...

Class Action Suit Filed Against All Romance eBooks

15 January, 201715 January, 2017Lawsuit21 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...

US Supreme Court Declines to Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield

9 January, 201714 January, 2017LawsuitOne 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...

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

9 August, 20169 August, 2016Lawsuit, PublishingLeave a comment

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...

Paramount Says Star Trek Axanar Copyright Lawsuit Is Not Over

17 June, 20162 October, 2016Intellectual Property, Lawsuit17 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...

Author Sues Simon & Schuster Over eBook Royalties on a Book It Doesn’t Publish

22 May, 20169 June, 2016ebook sales, Lawsuit, Publishing6 Comments

There’s a story going around this weekend about a new class action lawsuit filed against Simon & Schuster. Doctor and author Sheldon Blau is alleging that S&S...

Reports of the Death of the Star Trek Axanar Lawsuit Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

22 May, 20162 October, 2016Intellectual Property, Lawsuit7 Comments

There’s a story going around this weekend to the effect that the lawsuit Paramount filed against the indie Star Trek fan film Axanar “is going away”. While...

Ellora’s Cave Now Threatening RWA With Bogus Defamation Lawsuit

21 May, 201612 June, 2017Lawsuit35 Comments

The romance publisher Ellora’s Cave has moved on from trying to silence book bloggers with a SLAPP lawsuit; now it is reportedly making threats against the Romance...

Amazon Files Suit Against Sellers of Fake Reviews

26 April, 201612 May, 2017Amazon, Fraud, Lawsuit2 Comments

Amazon filed its third round of lawsuits against purveyors of fake product reviews last week. Geekwire and the Seattle Times report that the retailer is suing...

Fair Use Triumphs as US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Google Book-Scanning Project

18 April, 20169 June, 2018Google Books, Lawsuit, The Authors Guild6 Comments

The decade-old lawsuit over Google’s effort to scan library books and display snippets in search results came to an end this week. The US Supreme Court...

Amazon Defeats Publicity Rights Lawsuit Over Erotica Cover

20 March, 201621 March, 2016Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lawsuit, Self-Pub15 Comments

In April of last year Amazon, Smashwords, and B&N were caught up in a publicity rights lawsuit in Ohio. The lawsuit was filed by a couple...

Textbook Publishers Win Default Judgement Against Alleged Textbook Pirate

7 March, 201612 March, 2016Intellectual Property, Lawsuit, PiracyOne Comment

The copyright and trademark infringement case filed last year by Pearson, Cengage, and McGraw-Hill came to an abrupt end last month in a default judgement. The Sante...

Scribd Settles NFB Lawsuit Over Inaccessible eBook Service

9 December, 20159 December, 2015Lawsuit, Streaming eBooksLeave a comment

Scribd’s headline news today is the new content they’re adding to their catalog, but that’s just press release fluff. The important story happened several weeks ago, and...

Axel Springer Sues Ad-Block Developer

23 November, 201523 November, 2015Advertising, Lawsuit5 Comments

German news publisher Axel Springer has always taken a hard line on advertising. It has sued ad block developers, barred ad block users from Bild.de, was...

Louisiana Booksellers, ABA Challenge Louisiana Indecency Law

5 November, 20155 November, 2015LawsuitLeave a comment

From the “we haven’t learned anything from history”dep’t comes the tale of a new nanny-state law in Louisiana. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit...