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Wordherders Monthly Meeting
2018-06-11 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Program:
- Introductions
- Your Great News: Who queried? Got accepted? Published? Signed with an Agent? Has a book announcement soon?
- Discussion: Using Brandnames in Fiction
- http://www.betternovelproject.com/blog/trademarks
- http://publishlawyer.com/using-trademarks-in-fiction
- Possible Issues:
- Infringement
- Tarnishment or Defamation
- Dilution
- Discussion: What About Naming People?
- Using Real People, Places, And Corporations In Your Fiction – How Real Can You Get And Not Be Sued? https://www.sidebarsaturdays.com/2017/08/05/httpwp-mep7vddb-us
- Defamation and Libel
- Defenses against defamation and libel
- Truth
- Opionion
- Parody and Satire
- Invasion of Privacy
- Right of Publicity
- Defenses against defamation and libel
- Defamation and Libel
- Discussion: Wait, what?! Adventures in Trademarks, aka #CockyGate
- https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/15/17339578/cockygate-explained-romance-publishing-faleena-hopkins
- Romance writers love the word “cocky”.
- Romance authors – and others – have used the word in titles of their books.
- Faleena Hopkins is a romance author who has written a series Cocker Brothers, The Cocky Series
- Hopkins applied for a received a trademark for the word “Cocky”.
- L. Smith and Melissa Jane prepared to release their work, Cocky Fiance, on Audible.
- Hopkins sent them a cease and desist.
- Romance authors on twitter (and presumably elsewhere) found out.
- The internet broke.
- http://authorgrow.com/2018/05/author-trademarks-a-popular-word-in-book-titles-what-does-it-mean
- Hopkins also filed for a wordmark – that would also include the font, but the licensing service she used for the “cocky” wordmark prohibited licensees from obtaining trade-/wordmarks on fonts from them.
Announcements:
Upcoming Events, Conferences and Workshops:
June 8, 2018 Gutsy Creatives Course, “How to Self-Publish Your First Book,” by Kelsye Nelson. https://gutsycreatives.wpengine.com/course/how-to-self-publish-your-first-book
Aug 17 – 18, 2018 2018 Rivers of Ink Conference; http://riversofink.org
Next Meeting:
7/9/2018
