The phrase
"pirated works" refers to unauthorized copies or reproductions of someone else's creative or copyrighted material, such as books, movies, music, or software.
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The easy availability
of pirated works online affects the entire book publishing community, including authors, readers, publishers, agents and booksellers.
The first factor was to publicly denounce the torrent site
for pirating their works and then capitalizing on the ensuing television, radio or online attention that came along with it.
Rather than have a major freak - out, Lieber talked to the people
who pirated his work, discovered how much they liked it, and in the end «saw a major boost in his sales,» according to Waid.
As a result, Niles has resolved to worry less about finding ways to stop people
from pirating his work and more about satisfying the people who support it.
But, when someone tells me they have the right to
pirate my work because they like to read and can't afford my work, well, that does get my dander up.
Regrettably, according to a report by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, a huge number of Manga and Anime fans, over 50 % of them in the U.S. and 12 % in Japan, are watching or
reading pirated works.
It sounds like you had no authorized ebook versions, so you need to sue Amazon for allowing distribution that resulted
in pirated work.
The USA Trade Representative office has made highly publicized remarks on how Baidu is a notorious purveyor
of pirated works.
Only the biggest names out there will get sought after
for pirated works, and only likely if they are expensive ebooks.
Nope, the people at Flight Sim Labs deliberately included this file to «hunt down people
who pirated their work».
Should authors spend their time hunting around for people
pirating their works?
Before anyone expresses concern that Amazon is now stripping books from its retail website due to simply not thinking they are worthy, the terms of service for using KDP have always allowed the retailer to do so, a right they have exercised in the past in regard to immoral, pornographic, and
pirated works.
Legally, the only responsibility distributors bear in piracy cases is to respond promptly to infringement claims by removing
the pirated work.
In principle, I believe that enforcing serious legal penalties against the hackers / sellers of
pirated works can help somewhat.
You may be able to recover the royalties from
the pirated work.