On Friday the Authors Guild joined the AAP in expressing outrage at the Internet Archive’s self-declared “emergency” powers to lend scanned, copyright books around the world without limitations. “IA has no rights whatsoever to these books, much less to give them away indiscriminately without consent of the publisher or author. We are shocked that the…
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Internet Archive Grants Itself Emergency Copyright Powers for Uncontrolled Digital Lending
“To make a real difference for the nation and the world,” the Internet Archive unilaterally granted itself emergency powers to lend a corpus of over 1.4 million ebooks without any restrictions, contrary to its own stated policies. They are calling it a “National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners,” lasting at least through…
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At Simon & Schuster, Melissa Hurt has been promoted to telemarketing account manager. Tricia Orlando joins as telesales account manager. She was previously with Norton in the trade sales department. Sharismar Rodriguez has joined Macmillan Children’s as senior art director for Feiwel and Friends, Holt, Roaring Brook Press, and FSG Children’s lists. Previously, she was…
Authors Guild Issues New “Model Contract”
The Authors Guild has released a new version of their “model trade book contract,” the first update in almost a decade. The guild calls the model “both an advocacy initiative as well as an instructional tool.” They had the Association of Authors’ Representatives (AAR) and other independent agents review the model this time. (The model…
The Misfits Sues Abrams for Infringement in Photobook
Punk band The Misfits has sued Abrams Books for copyright infringement, claiming that the illustrated book Scream with Me, published in December, is “rife with large-scale, repeated, and unlicensed reproductions of Misfits A.D. intellectual property.” (Frontmen Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only created the Misfits A.D. company when they toured together in 2016.) The book’s cover…
People, Etc.
At Random House Children’s, Maria Correa joins the Classic Brand team as associate editor. She was previously junior editor at Little Tiger Group. Morgan Maple joins as associate publicist. She was previously publicity assistant at Little, Brown Children’s. Gisela de la Concepción Fosado has been promoted to editorial director at Duke University Press. Susan Fissell…