Archive for the ‘SFWA Blog’ Category

Renovation Increases Attending Membership Rates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2010 Reno – On October 1, 2010, the following membership rate changes for Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, will go into effect: Full adult attending membership rates will increase from $160 to $180. Converting a supporting membership to an attending membership will be $130. Family rates will be […]

Guest post–Revolution #9: Thoughts on Electronic Publishing Vs. “Traditional” Print Publishing

by Cat Rambo 1. Any debate about the current struggle between electronic and traditional print publishing begins with this fact: no one thinks that online publishing will not eventually overtake the traditional, hold-in-your-hand, made-of-dead-trees model. While you may well continue to be able to slip something paperback-sized into your back pocket two decades down the […]

Sample DMCA notice for reading-kicks-ass.net

The website http://reading.kicks-ass.net/ contains a significant amount of material that is recognizably copyrighted by our members.    Often sites which post material without permission are outside the United States and governed by different copyright rules.  In this instance the hosting company’s policy explicitly prohibits distribution of copyrighted materials. Legally, DMCA notices must come from the […]