Sylvia you state in your blog: "Respecting the importance and protection of the rights of writers is and should be the only way for publishers to gain good standing and reputation in the industry." On your blog dated 2024.11.15 titled: 'Kickstarter, Contest Judge, TurningPoints', you refer to 'Our SL Writing collection' and 'For six months' so I am correct in identifying you are referring to the the SL Writers Project which you were involved with until you were discharged from position of responsibility for libel and manipulation, which can be and has been evidenced.
At that time the stories you refer to and the writers who wrote them were no longer within your remit. This event happened BEFORE you wrote that blog. Therefore it is impossible you did not know you were no longer responsible in any way for those stories.
The first edition of that project was published earlier than scheduled, on 2024.11.21, here: https://linktr.ee/SLWritersProject The change of its intended publishing date was made explicitly to safeguard it from yourself. This was necessary as a direct result of your blog in which you state publicly; that you intend to take content from that collection and to publish it yourself, outside of the intended publication to which those writers were in agreement to publish. Again, this can be and has been evidenced.
The technical term for your activity is attempted ‘industrial espionage’. It is good you have been taking lessons from other industry professionals and that they have instructed you the necessity for publishing houses to protect their writers. That is exactly what I have done. Before we are drawn into any legal situation which will be expensive to resolve, I suggest you do take heed of the advice you have been given. It should cause you to reconsider publishing material which has already, very recently, been published by the publisher who the writers agreed to publish it.
Taking copies of those stories to gain from financially by independently re-publishing them without consent of the original publishing house and without consent of the original writers is widely recognised both within the industry and outside of it to be fraudulent behaviour. You did mention about “reputation in the industry”. Perhaps you will contemplate what sort of a reputation you are acquiring for yourself as a result of your own activities.
I have already issued you with a legal notification to cease and desist copypasting my own work and our private messages into chatGPT without my consent, which you do not have and never had, to recombobulate it into a different entity, which can be and has been evidenced, and to use it as a part of your harrasment campaign against me, which can be and has been evidenced and witnessed.
You have made it very clear what your opinion of me is, despite the six months I invested into helping you to develop your career in a safe, sane and normal way. It is sad you chose to, in your own words (which can be and has been evidenced); "build a mountain and then smash it down again." Nobody is interested in having their efforts to do positive things with and for the community, smashed down.
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https://sylviawoodham.wixsite.com/home/post/on-publishing-rights
Midnight 2024.12.12