Literary works are automatically protected for the author by national and international copyright laws
All rights are reserved by the author, Norman D. W. MacDonald, for any literary works posted on this Blog site.
Norm's ebooks are published by Echo Dawn Media.
Copyright infringement is taken very seriously by the courts and can result in stiff penalties.
A recent case of copyright infringement December 17, 2009
"A Chinese female writer accusing Google China of copyright infringement has filed a lawsuit against the company in a Beijing court.
Mian Mian, a well-known Shanghai-based novelist, said the Haidian District People's Court is scheduled to hold a hearing on the case on Dec 29.
"Google earlier argued that they didn't violate copyright law as they only displayed a small amount of text of my book, but I think their move has seriously hurt Chinese writers' rights," Mian Mian told China Daily yesterday.
Mian said Google scanned her entire novel, titled Acid Lover, published by the Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, without notifying her or paying her for copyright permission.
Google China deleted Mian's Acid Lover from their website on Nov 15."
(Source: China Daily December 16)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment