Is Amazon Selling Your Articles without your Permission?
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Are your articles selling through Amazon.com? — Nancy Stern (nancy@nancystern.com)
The American Society of Journalists and Authors writes: “Amazon.com is selling copies of articles. But in some cases, articles are appearing even though the writers never assigned these additional rights to anyone. Chances are that Amazon made the deal with some consolidator, but that doesn’t help the writer who receives none of the revenue. ASJA and the Author’s Guild are looking into this situation. We’d ask that writers go to Amazon and search under their names. If you find that your work is up there and you know that you never licensed such uses, we’d ask you to send an email to amazonwatch@asja.org. We’re trying to get a scope of the problem to find an effective and equitable approach to resolving it. Please note if you actually registered the copyright on any of the pieces before February.”