New Author Group Targets Piracy

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 7th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

Maria Langer, no doubt familiar to regular commenters on this site, has created a new Yahoo group for authors entitled “Authors Against Piracy”

The invite-only group is targeted at published authors to discuss “how authors and publishers can prevent electronic publications from being freely distributed by software pirates and pirate Web sites.”

If you wish to join this group, you need to contact Maria and introduce yourself, being sure to include your most recently published work. Other than those requirements, membership is free.

Also, be sure to take a look at her post about ebooks, which contains the information about the group in the callout as well as some background information on the problem.

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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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2 Responses »

  1. According to Maria on August 7th, 2007 at 12:04 pm:

    Thanks for the plug. I’m hoping we can build a good group of authors who are seriously concerned about the problem. I think we can work together to educate each other and protect our hard work from thieves.

  2. According to JB on August 7th, 2007 at 2:18 pm:
    Maria: Very welcome! I’m looking forward to seeing how this group turns out!

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