DaveKuzminski
Bad news
Unfortunately, the news today can't all be good. I will quote from a source without giving the name so that the source will not become the target of taunts and insults.
I just got back last evening from Washington D.C. I learned a lot while I was in Maryland and Washington about what rights I have regarding PA. I'll list a few to help you, but remember, each case is different. If you have a lawyer that tells you something different, by all means, take your own legal advice, not mine.
1. If you have consideration loss, you have the right to seek private council and try and file a civil case against PA. If you have no considerable loss then as an author you cannot sue for damages. The AG will not fight for the rights of individuals who are looking for compensation of any kind or to bring suits not based in factual "fraudulent" evidence. The information I presented from my site was not enough legal evidence for the AG office to find conclusive enough to prosecute. According to the AG lawyer I spoke to, everything PA markets on their site is written legally.
2. Misleading information represented on the PA site falls under the Federal Trade Commission and NOT the Attorney Generals office or BBB. The AG is investigating the BBB's lack of reporting on PA, but found no recourse to date.
3. Every letter that the AG sent to PA regarding practices has been resolved, according to the AG. That means that they wrote PA a letter and PA fixed the "oversight" immediately. The AG does not deem PA liable or have intent to fraud or mislead at this time. According to their records, PA has not lied, manipulated or committed such acts against any author. PA stands by this information and according to the AG, they cannot prove in a court of law otherwise. In many cases the AG office considers an author to be a company and not an individual. They will not dispute company issues of any kind.
4. The AG continues to investigate letters received by authors, but when PA is notified, they release the authors, thereby making sure that authors have no legal recourse and it appears to the AG that they are in fact trying to do business legitimately.
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What this means is that those few writers who were deprived of royalties in the recent Special Discount with Royalties that PA conducted are now the best chance against PA provided they file their complaints against PA with the Maryland AG, the FTC, and the BBB.
Unfortunately, the news today can't all be good. I will quote from a source without giving the name so that the source will not become the target of taunts and insults.
I just got back last evening from Washington D.C. I learned a lot while I was in Maryland and Washington about what rights I have regarding PA. I'll list a few to help you, but remember, each case is different. If you have a lawyer that tells you something different, by all means, take your own legal advice, not mine.
1. If you have consideration loss, you have the right to seek private council and try and file a civil case against PA. If you have no considerable loss then as an author you cannot sue for damages. The AG will not fight for the rights of individuals who are looking for compensation of any kind or to bring suits not based in factual "fraudulent" evidence. The information I presented from my site was not enough legal evidence for the AG office to find conclusive enough to prosecute. According to the AG lawyer I spoke to, everything PA markets on their site is written legally.
2. Misleading information represented on the PA site falls under the Federal Trade Commission and NOT the Attorney Generals office or BBB. The AG is investigating the BBB's lack of reporting on PA, but found no recourse to date.
3. Every letter that the AG sent to PA regarding practices has been resolved, according to the AG. That means that they wrote PA a letter and PA fixed the "oversight" immediately. The AG does not deem PA liable or have intent to fraud or mislead at this time. According to their records, PA has not lied, manipulated or committed such acts against any author. PA stands by this information and according to the AG, they cannot prove in a court of law otherwise. In many cases the AG office considers an author to be a company and not an individual. They will not dispute company issues of any kind.
4. The AG continues to investigate letters received by authors, but when PA is notified, they release the authors, thereby making sure that authors have no legal recourse and it appears to the AG that they are in fact trying to do business legitimately.
End of quoted material.
What this means is that those few writers who were deprived of royalties in the recent Special Discount with Royalties that PA conducted are now the best chance against PA provided they file their complaints against PA with the Maryland AG, the FTC, and the BBB.