It will come as no great surprise that publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, along with the estates of Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ernest Hemingway, prevailed in their copyright infringement case brought against Fredrik Colting and Melissa Medina for their KinderGuides books, asserted as “early learning guides” to classic works of literature. On Friday, NY Southern District Federal Judge Jed Rakoff granted summary judgment on all nine counts of copyright infringement, and rejected the defendants’ claim of fair use “as a matter of law.” Somewhat unusually, Judge Rakoff issued a two-page ruling, with “a memorandum […]
