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Book Publishing
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New York Bar Picture Book
Round Two: Fight
By Wela Quan
So here it is folks! a sneak peak of my second book It’s looking pretty good and…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Ghost On the Book
Julia Moskin writes about ghostwriting cookbooks,here, for the New York Times.
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Objections in the Google Book Settlement
By joetort
The New York Times has an article on the large numbers of objections filed in the Google book settlement as the date of the fairness hearing looms. The article is…
LawSites
Older Copyright Renewal Records Now Available
Both beSpacific and Creative Commons provide pointers to the news reported on the blog Inside Google Book Search that Google Book Search now has copyright data for pre-1978 books, enabling…
Media Law Prof Blog
What Happened To That 5% Pre-Order Discount For Scott McClellan’s Memoir On the B&N Website
I was browsing B&N's website earlier this week, looking for Scott McClellan's new book What Happened, and noticed that the store was offering a "pre-order"discount of 5 percent. But literally…
Media Law Prof Blog
And More….
Now Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin USA, is recalling all copies of Love and Consequences, by "Margaret B. Jones," who, as it turns out, is not part Native American…
ContractsProf Blog
Conservative Authors’ Suit Headed to Arbitration
As reported in The New York Times last year, a group of five authors sued Eagle Publishing, the parent company of Regnery Publishing, alleging that the publisher was depriving authors…
Drug & Device Law
Curmudgeon, Meet Benjamin Franklin
By Bexis
Man, are we tickled. We just learned that The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law, written by the Herrmann half of your dynamic blogging duo, was a finalist in the competition…
ContractsProf Blog
If Fox and HarperCollins Don’t Do It, Will They Have Breached?
As everybody now knows (pretty much whether they want to or not), ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, recently announced that it would publish a book "written" by O.J. Simpson entitled…
The Trademark Blog
“French Publishers Join Google Book Search Suit”
CIO: "French Publishers Join Google Book Search Suit."