Major copyright battle in romance book industry--'cockygate'!!
[Matter is explained at vox.]
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People are following this controversy on twitter--#cockygate
One author started a book series with 'cocky' in the title--a la The Cocky Cowboy. Then filed a copyright claim on the word (when used in book titles). The author stopped Amazon from selling some books whose authors had been notified of copyright infringement.
The vox article does a good job explaining some of the legal and financial ramifications of this kind of copyright claim.
NB. I discovered this controversy when I checked the romance novelist Courtney Milan's twitter posts. I dìd this after learning from a DU dicussion of a post at Crooksandliars that reveals her experience of harassment by the 9th circuit judge for whom Trump's SCOTUS pick worked. The DU post points out this Trump pick may have a 'hear no evil, see no evil' problem like the OH House member who was a wrestling coach at Ohio State.