Copyright Aid

Hi Andy, Thanks for info. I hadn't got that e-mail, but sent it via their contact form. If anyone looks up the book on Google, they will find that my download version is actually cheaper than what they are offering, so I don't suppose it will affect sales. The printed version was reprinted numerous ...

It is unlikely I would get anywhere with this. I contacted them via their website, but got no reply. I eventually traced them to the Central African Republic! They do have a take-down DMCA form - but not worth getting involved!
Robert

Hi Andy, I am getting more confused than ever now. It is on a number of other sites as well, this time in French. It has also picked up another ISBN number from somehwhere. They are both shown as: Paperback: 154 pages Publisher: Shelterdeck Publishing (28 Jan. 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 095715...

Hi Andy, Thanks for full reply. Yes, I am Shelterdeck Publishing. I prepare the books myself, fully formatted on my home PC and then convert it to PDF, also on my PC. I send the complete files via We Transfer to the printers, and they print as many as I want, and deliver them to me, and I market the...

I have just discovered that the fees to join the site for "Free" downloads is either £7.25 per month, or £87 per year!

I came across this today. It is my book. https://mocalra.cf/blogs/downloader-di-libri-online-di-google-rms-st-helena-south-atlantic-mailship-letteratura-italiana-epub-9780957158313.html This appears to be a Norwegian company who has converted it to an e-book and is giving it away (provided one regis...

If it went to Penguin House, it is quite likely they are not interested in it any more as it was so long ago, and if you asked them, would probably say you can do what you want with it. Not all that long ago, I had a book accepted by a publisher and it quickly sold out, but they kept stalling on a r...

Thanks for further clarification. It is not worrying me unduly, but I do know that a lot of publishers and photographers are getting very concerned. I spent many years at sea, so this writing and photogrpahy thing was just a by-product of that, and keeps me busy in old age, but I will never get rich...

Thanks, It is rather too late for me now anyway, considering I have been doing it for over 50 years! :( Similarly when people take photographs of models they have purchased from me, I never considered that they were supposed to ask permission to use them. But I am now hearing that an awful lot of pu...

I was thinking of Creative Commons, as the new laws would seem to be extending the rule that if an identifiable person is shown, vene if it is CCO, permission must be sought from the person photogographed. So it looks like even inanimate objcets will be copyright, such as photographed of motor cars,...

Thanks, but problem is it is not on a private basis, as I have written a number of well-illustrtaed books over the years, and always felt that as I took the photographs myself, it would be OK to use them. From time to time, I have even been told that it is illegal to take photographs of ships becaus...

Thanks, as long as it hasn't happened yet, nothing to worry about, but no doubt it will just be the normal chaos after they have finalised it!

I was referring to models completely built by myself or others, not kits. But if permission is required to photograph such things, surely that would render the camera more-or-less obsolete because the majority of photograps show things that are made by someone else. I know I have taken photographs o...

I make small models that I sell, but recently, I have been getting people asking for permission to photograph them when I exhibit them anywhere. Can't understand this, as I have always thought that it was OK to photograph models without asking permission (I am not talking about in museums, but just ...

I am aware that the copyright laws have just changed (advised of this by the Authors Lending & Collecting Society). Looking it up, it is in the usual confusing language. Am I correct in thinking that from now on, large online organisations such as Facebook, Pixabay (Free image site) etc, with be...