Lexy Bloom has been named senior editor at Knopf, after many years as senior editor for Vintage/Anchor. Stephanie Hitchcock is joining Atria as senior editor. She was most recently editor at Harper and Harper Business. Alexandra Hightower has joined Little, Brown Children’s as associate editor. Previously, she was assistant editor at Delacorte. Chelcee Johns has…
Legal
Pasternak’s Niece Accuses Novelist Prescott of Plagiarism
Attorneys representing Boris Pasternak’s great-niece Anna Pasternak served notice through a letter to Lara Prescott, author of THE SECRETS WE KEPT, alleging copyright infringement of her 2016 book Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago. According to London’s Sunday Times, Pasternak’s attorneys charge that Prescott’s novel includes “an astonishing number of…
Judge Threatens Publishers and Audible with A Quick Trial, With No Immediate Ruling On Injunction
The publishers motioning to enjoin Audible’s new Captions feature left federal Judge Valerie Caproni’s courtroom Wednesday without an answer, as the judge delayed any decision. Toward the end of the two-hour conference, Caproni offered both parties a different kind of swift justice: Go straight to trial on the case, with expedited discovery and Audible holding…
Authors Guild and AAR File Brief Endorsing Publishers’ Suit Against Audible
For only the second time, the Authors Guild and the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives) joined together to file an amicus brief in support of the seven publishers suing to block Audible Captions. They say the “feature presents a significant threat to the rights and livelihoods of authors and their representatives…. Audible seeks to bypass…
Publishers Push Back on Audible’s Legal Evasion, Refute Any Educational Benefit from Captions
Publishers replied to Audible’s arguments against a injunction blocking the release of their Captions transcription feature, swatting at the legal arguments as a distraction rather than an answer, and exposing the idea that there is any compelling educational benefit. “Audible’s brief is remarkable for what it admits and fails to rebut, as well as its…
Why Audible’s Legal Arguments Fail
Ahead of the formal response from the seven publishers suing Audible for copyright infringement due to their Caption feature, assistant director at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property and assistant professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University Devlin Hartline provides a preview of the likely arguments. It’s plainly a…