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This is intended to be a guide to established and new authors alike. Emphasis has been placed on the law as it relates to the internet. With particular thoughts on what action can be taken to stop infringements of an authors rights and possible redress. An important addition to US legislation in this general area is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which we believe will go a long way to cleaning up some of the more obvious and blatant misuse of intellectual property on the internet. Relevant extracts of the Conference Repot 105-796 are reproduced here. We have also produced a submission form for the use of any author who has reason to believe that his rights are being infringed on the internet. If you are an author in this unenviable position, please read the notes to the form carefully. We at babash.com do not offer ourselves up as the final authority on copyright law or the law as it relates to the internet. We are simply a Publishing Company run by authors who have had to learn how to deal with the theft and exploitation of our property on the internet. We would like to express our thanks to the "Authors Guild" who kindly sent us the article by Kay Murray "Online Infringement" An Author's Rights and Remedies. The article appeared in their Bulletin 11 Spring 1999 and confirmed that in our own research - we had got it right. We have included a few notes which we hope ISPs will find useful. Like us, the vast majority of them are people trying to make an honest living in this exciting new commercial environment. We regard them as partners and anything we can do to make their life easier we will gladly do. What is Copyright? Rebeca Delgado-Martinez Valette, Esq. explains:
We have linked to this page because we could not have put it better ourselves and the author has given permission. The page also contains additional resources which the author recommends.
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