On Friday Open Road filed their reply to HarperCollins’ demand for the maximum statutory damages, over $1 million in legal costs, and a permanent injunction following the District Court’s finding that Open Road’s digital edition of Jean Craighead George’s JULIE OF THE WOLVES infringed Harper’s rights. Open Road argues that Harper “overreaches in its attempt to leverage the Court’s narrow ruling concerning a single work into remedies that would be grossly unfair and unwarranted to Open Road, and which would unduly prejudice the rights of many authors.” First and foremost, they object to the request that the court block Open […]
