White House Copyright Crackdown

Not really book related, but website related and how many of us have websites????  We've all seen those sites that we know are selling either pirated goods or bogus (as in fake) products.  This may also eventually flow over to small press authors who are seeing copyright protected material stolen.  An interesting article in Politico about the White House Copyright Czar and her efforts to shut down domains that sell stolen/pirated goods.  Here's the story.

US copyright Complaint Sparks Twitter and Facebook Storm

Wow!  Have you seen this???  A storm is brewing about an editor who, allegedly, lifted a writer's article for her own magazine's use without permission from the author.  And then the editor tells the writer she should be grateful for the publicity.  Double wow!  Read the article here.