More than a decade after being sued over an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye, Fredrik Colting is the co-defendant in a new lawsuit over turning four classic novels into illustrated children’s books without permission. The complaint, filed in New York federal court Thursday by Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and various literary estates, asserts that Colting and co-defendant Melissa Medina have infringed copyright on Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. The plaintiffs assert in their 42-page […]
