The ever-unpredictable Ninth Circuit (e.g. California) Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a lower court verdict and held that Simon & Schuster violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act as currently interpreted by the FCC in sending unsolicited text messages to cellphones in promoting Stephen King’s THE CELL. MediaPost says “the decision appears to mark the […]
Lawsuit
Salinger Defendants Claim "Commentary and Criticism"
Attorneys at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz filed papers on behalf of Fredrik Colting and his distributor asking the court to deny JD Salinger’s request for an injunction blocking publication of 60 YEARS LATER — Coming through the Rye. They claim the book is ” a complex and undeniably transformative exposition” about JD Salinger and […]
Bloomsbury Calls Allegations "Unfounded, Unsubstantiated and Untrue"
Bloomsbury responds to the lawsuit filed by the estate of Adrian Jacobs saying that “JK Rowling had never heard of Adrian Jacobs nor seen, read or heard of his book Willy the Wizard until this claim was first made in 2004…. Willy the Wizard is a very insubstantial booklet running to 36 pages which had […]
Estate of Willy the Wizard Author Sues Bloomsbury, Claims Potter Infringes, and More Legal News
The estate of children’s book author Adrian Jacobs has sued Bloomsbury in England’s High Court, alleging that JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire “copied substantial parts” of Jacobs’ THE ADVENTURES OF WILLY THE WIZARD–No 1 Livid Land. The estate “is also seeking a Court order against JK Rowling herself for pre-action disclosure […]
US Attorney Fitzgerald Threatens Harper with Defamation Suit Over Revised Paperback of Book on Terrorism Cases
In other legal news, federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald threatened to sue HarperCollins in a letter to the publisher about their forthcoming new edition of Peter Lance’s TRIPLE CROSS: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI. (The new paperback is said to contain “26 additional pages and an introduction […]
Salinger Sues Over Unauthorized Catcher in the Rye Sequel
J.D. Salinger filed suit in a NY Federal Court against the anonymous author of the forthcoming sequel 60 YEARS LATER: Coming Through the Rye, also naming UK company Windupbird Publishing, Sweden-based Nicotext, and SCB Distributors (which sells Nicotext books in the US) in the action. The complaint declares, “the sequel is not a parody and […]