This auction was allowed to continue and to be re-posted in another area.
| Dear jamesdezi06, Are you saying that Twilight, and the works of Mary Janice Davidson etc are in the public domain? You obviously do not understand what PUBLIC DOMAIN means. For a book to be in the public domain, the author must have been deceased for 70 years. I do not think this is the case with Stephanie Meyers or Mary Janice Davidson. The truth is, you are selling pirated copies of in-copyright, in-print works, and you could be jailed for 5 years and fined $250,000 PER BOOK. - rowenacherry |
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Here's EBay's response to my complaint.
We'll review what you've reported for violations of our digitally
delivered goods policy. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We'll review the listing or post carefully. If we determine that it
violates eBay policy, we may:
-- send the seller a warning
-- remove the listing
-- limit the seller's buying and selling privileges
We usually won't suspend a seller's account unless the seller has
violated our policies multiple times. To protect the privacy of our
members, we don't share what actions we choose to take.
For more information about our digitally delivered goods policy, please
visit:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/downloadable.html
7000 instances, selling 10 copies or more, permitted to change EBay user name, and to re-list.... Yep, this surely isn't a multiple violation.
Meanwhile, I don't write Vampire books, my works are copyrighted to myself, I have done everything EBay suggests is wise, I have a user page that points out that anyone selling e-books by me is infringing my copyright....
All About Me
What everyone should know about meI'm an author of racy, wildly entertaining, futuristic romance (according to one reviewer). I am also a One Voice member of the copyright alliance, and an EPIC Award winning Friend of ePublishingThings I sellI retain the copyright and all electronic rights to all my novels. From time to time, I might offer the e-version of Forced Mate. I'm the only legal seller on EBay of Forced Mate as an e-book. My books are NOT in the public domain.Things I collectLanguages spoken:English, German
Yet, EBay protects the EBayers who say that they own the copyright to my books, say that they have the right to sell my books, say that my books are "in the public domain".
All authors are in the same boat. The pirates are basically saying that authors have no right to control the distribution and sale of their creations. Regardless of the copyright laws, enforcement is worse than a joke.
ReplyDeleteI'm married to a best-selling author, it's how we keep food on the table. Frankly, I don't think it's going to last more than another year or two. Then I don't know how we'll support ourselves -- maybe I'll open a website shilling copyrighted materials. After all, the profits are good the risk of any meaningful penaltiy is nill . . .