Authors Without A Yacht (AWaY) discussion

Do any of you take Writers' Weekly?

In today's issue, Angela Hoy shares how she contacted Google about a blogspot blogger who was posting excerpts from Angela's newsletter without attribution and definitely without permission.

At the first complaint Google deleted offending posts and warned the offending blogger.

Then after a second complaint, deleted the entire blog.
Angela has also invoiced the copyright infringer (and has heard nothing), but it is possible that she won't let the debt drop.

To complain about infringement by a blogspot blogger:
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html


Here is the url to subscribe to Angela's newsletter (to follow the story of Angela Hoy's actions against infringers)

To subscribe, and receive the ebook, How to Be a
Freelance Writer (with 103 paying markets), surf here:
http://www.writersweekly.com

Email for Angela Hoy, Publisher
writersweekly@writersweekly.com
http://www.writersweekly.com

Back Issues (with LOTS of paying markets) are at:
http://www.writersweekly.com/backissu...

You know... It amazes me how many people think they have free reign to take anything they want on the internet and repost it without permission...especially paid content. And they don't seem to realize how easy it is to track that, either.

Brenna

I'm watching Angela Hoy's journey with great interest because she seems to be setting an example that publishers might do well to follow.

I don't see any downside at all in setting a dollar value on the content of one's published writing, and in documenting one's attempts to collect, even if the effort might be futile in the short term.