I am LOLing at the preliminary response by the defendants in the Cockygate...situation. Selected excerpts:

Indeed, contrary to Plaintiffs' unsupported allegations that Ms. Watson "played a key role in a juggernaut attack on [Plaintiffs'] trademarks, books and person, Ms. Watson played no role whatsoever in the conception, creation, authorship, decision to publish, or publication of The Cocktales Anthology and otherwise lacks any authority to halt or impact its publication.

Cocky is a commonly used term in the titles of romance novels, in part because of its double entendre as a sexual innuendo that references part of the male anatomy and a synonym for being arrogant or a "bad boy" – both of which are relevant themes in these types of stories.

Cocktales, too, exceeds the low threshold of artistic relevance, as does the use of "the Cocky Collective" to refer to the forty author-contributors and the wording "authors who take cockiness to a whole new level" on the cover.

It should be noted that Cocktales currently sits at #25 on the USA Today Best Selling Books List.

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I think it would be HIGHLY amusing to have Chuck Tingle chime in on this.

That is so funny! I am dying of laughter.

Hil or Fay (can't remember which) linked to a book written because of "Cockygate" called "His Cocky Valet", which was pretty good for being written in a couple days.

I know Courtney Milan (love her books!) is a lawyer in real life under her real name. And Kevin Kneupper has been doing a lawsuit (pro bono). I bought one of his books on the strength of this suit.

I think it would be HIGHLY amusing to have Chuck Tingle chime in on this.

Like Tingle would pass this up: [link]

Courtney Milan has posted the court transcript.

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It's quite a read.

Do we know what the judge looks like? Because I'd like to have a mental image of the person who went to law school, did his time as a lawyer, and clawed his way into the judiciary, just to have to say "cocky" 30 times in under 2 minutes. With (presumably) a straight face.

Pop-tarts.

Those in the Steve/Bucky Avengers fandom probably remember Owlet. She's writing original stories under her real (or at least less fannish) name, and I am loving it. [link]

(By the way, this isn't me outing her. She made the connection between her fannish and pro IDs clear.)

Oh, that is lovely. I saw a mention of it on Facebook and thought it sounded cute, but didn't read it. Knowing it's Owlet . . .

Seemingly the cockygate kerfuffle has been resolved.