Last Friday US District Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald granted summary judgment in favor of HarperCollins in their lawsuit brought in late 2011 against Open Road over the epublisher’s publication of JULIE OF THE WOLVES in ebook form. Judge Buchwald writes that, “Based on a plain reading of the contractual language, we hold that the 1971 contract grants HarperCollins the exclusive right to license third parties to publish e-book versions of Julie of the Wolves.” She finds that is “a right which was infringed by Open Road in its unlicensed e-book publication of Julie of the Wolves.” The judge has […]
