April 2, 2015

Thursday News: Three’s Company parody prevails, authorial agency and commercialism, Fresh Romance Kickstarter, and Nature’s April Fool’s joke

JanetPublishing NewsApril Fools Day / authors' moral rights / Clean Reader / copyright / crowdfunding / diversity / dragons / Fair Use / genre / infringement / parody / reader expectations / Romance18 Comments

Play Reimagining ‘Three’s Company’ Wins Case – This is sort of a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that the play “3C,” which parodies the television series “Three’s Company,” has prevailed in federal court as transformative and therefore not infringing on DLT Entertainment’s copyright over the television show. ... more >

March 27, 2015

Friday News: Inktera abandons Clean Reader, James Baldwin & Margaret Mead on everything important, RITA finalists, and vampire poop

JanetPublishing NewsAmerican history / applications / bookstores / censorship / Clean Reader / Race / RITA / RWA / vampires12 Comments

Inktera Pulls Its Bookstore From Clean Reader, Effectively Killing an App Which Had More Protesters Than Users – So I haven’t really been following the Clean Reader controversy closely, so I’m just now catching up. It looks like the app isn’t going to be around much longer, given the fact ... more >