Sure, why not? Just stick a little caveat on your eBay ad:
"I am the Author, the Copyright holder, or an Authorized Reseller, or this item is in the Public Domain. This ad complies with all Rules and Regulations."
That's what a scumbag in Georgia is doing. Georgia is one of the stinkiest armpits in America when it comes to eBay piracy. Florida jerks make up the other stinky armpit.
This is EBAY ad 232379988985 from aci1sales. AND...using a second ID, 201955770336 from shippablemedia.
Both accounts, of course, offer 30 or 40 bootlegs, screwing even MORE authors.
Thing is, if Senator Sasse bothered to send in a VeRo complaint, this seller MIGHT be on notice to CEASE AND DESIST. Especially since it might also be possible (not probable) that Senator Sasse might want to send a letter to eBay advising them to NOT allow ANY caveats of this type, and when red-flagged, that a seller should produce THE LICENSING AGREEMENT.
Simple?
Why let some redneck scum steal from authors? WHY?
AND...
WHY allow this? America has copyright laws. Why should EBAY and PAYPAL not help enforce these laws? Because they hide behind the dirty skirt with DMCA scrawled on it? DMCA means that these sites that make millions a day, are "just venues" and can't possibly police themselves OR know a violation when it's reported. They will ONLY act if a rights owner happens to see the violation, jump through some hoops, and report it. They will NOT and ARE not obliged to ask an obvious bootlegging swine for a licensing agreement to back up that bullshit about "I own re-sale rights OR this is public domain."
Senator Sasse, virtually unknown till he went on Bill Maher's show, claimed he had no idea Maher's line about "House Nigga" was offensive, and after the fact, Tweeted about how he regretted not telling Bill how outrageous, racist, and reprehensible the remark was.
Mr. Sasse IS busy Tweeting most every day. Like:
I'm not saying that a U.S. Senator shouldn't waste time on Twitter. He might even be posting after hours. Or during those long vacations and time-outs that politicians require so often.
The guy can joke about how his son got a lesson in beekeeping.
Senator Sasse can even pretend he's Bill Maher, and go for laughs with a photo caption. Imagine the Beekeeper saying to the kid....:
And he can double-down on the yocks by, tongue-in-cheek, pretending the bald beekeeper is actually Ron Howard. HA!
But piracy is no joke.
Authors are hurting. Libraries are closing. Publishers are merging to stay above water.
It might get to the point where publishers can't afford to waste their money giving big advances to politicians or celebrities, just so they can boast about having famous names on their roster.
Imagine that: "Hmmm, should we pay a small fortune to this Senator from Nebraska for some over-long editorial nobody will buy? Just so we can have his name on our list? We could pay and nurture and encourage 20 good writers for what we're paying this guy..." And the answer comes back, "The piracy on the Internet is killing us. Give this guy a $500 offer. Most authors will take anything, especially on publish-or-perish vanity stuff from politicians."
Let's not get to the point where THAT happens.
Let's have some stronger DMCA laws, and more authors and publishers putting the heat on eBAY and PAYPAL by filing DMCA's.
Book publishers in America NEED SUPPORT.
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