That's one of the best things that any good government has to do so as to protect people's intelligent works done literally. So,  it is a good idea from the government. If you truly write something without copying and pasting,  nothing will stop you from submitting copies of it to government for access.

Once again, government doing a fine of looting simple people with mediocre earnings. Makes you wonder whatever happened to the whole - 'by the people, for the people' thing. 

Its not only a matter of taxes required of publishers ........ the whole tax system is rigged to extract value from the earning man.

I'd be taking the Marc Stevens approach if this was me. What proof is there that those laws apply to them?

http://marcstevens.net

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So is there a warehouse somewhere with thousands of books being held and catelogued by the Copyright Office? What do they do with all the books they receive? I can’t imagine that anyone actually reads them or consults them during a dispute. 

Maybe through this lawsuit they’ll begin accepting digital copies and certified photographs. That would make compliance more affordable for small publishers.

In this case it does not seem wrong for the government to fine those who do not comply with the rules, in the end what they are doing is trying to protect the author's rights
Thank you very much for sharing this news
I wish you a good weekend dear friend @ doitvoluntarily

You have a good political concept and you can analyze political issues from a different perspective which is really charming to me.

“reprinting lost works of art”

How lost? So old that they’re now in the public domain? If I write *A Guide to 12th Century  Byzantine Wheat Harvest in Eastern Thrace* and put it up on Amazon as a CreateSpace publish on demand book, if it sells one copy  would Amazon print out two more copies and send them to a federal depository?

I'm sick and tired of the corrupt swamp.

Status quo = Power, profit, and control.
Good = Respecting and protecting innocent life.
Evil = Hurting, oppressing, or killing for fun or for profit.

You could argue that this law may protect some intellectual works from being completely ripped off, but there were already mechanisms in place to prevent stuff like that (or do you really think that until now literature was rife with copyright abuse that needs to be reigned in?). This law will actively prevent lots of new works through bureaucratic red tape. And for all those cheering at our liberties being stripped away, tell me, if you have to submit your entire manuscript to the government before publishing, what's to prevent the government refusing to publish any literature that may be critical of government? If you people think that the government will protect peoples freedom of speech or their human rights then I've got a nice beach front property on the surface of the sun you might be interested in.

America has a STATUE OF LIBERTY yet most Americans (and Australians, and people in general) cheer when their liberties are destroyed by government. The dictionary definition of liberty is: "freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control" and "freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice". These laws don't respect and protect liberty, they actively piss all over it and you dipshits have your heads raised to the sky with your mouths open drinking all this 'good' golden rain.

The problem is that they are guilty.  Like all of us.  It was just their turn to be prosecuted.

They showed up on someone's radar, not because they were caught breaking the law, but someone was upset with a book they published.  And thus, see the person, find the crime.

I suggest drag out court case.
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File bankruptcy.
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