![]() Today’s (January 3) news from the Guild is that the plaintiffs in the case have been awarded US$7.8 million for 52 acts of copyright infringement in a default judgment against Kiss. The complaint named Kiss Library a “book piracy entity” and asked that “its operators be enjoined from illegally copying, distributing, and selling works written or published by the plaintiffs.” The authors from the Guild who were listed as plaintiffs were Lee Child, Sylvia Day, John Grisham, CJ Lyons, Jim Rasenberger, TJ Stiles, RL Stine, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Nicholas Weinstock, and Stuart Woods. Publishing Perspectives readers may recall that in July 2020, a group of plaintiffs including the Amazon Publishing (referenced as Amazon Content Services in court filings) Penguin Random House the Authors Guild and a dozen high-visibility Guild members and board members filed a suit in Seattle at the US District Court for the Western District of Washington. ![]() ![]() By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | ‘Protecting Copyright Owners’ Marketable Rights’ Dated Thursday (December 30), an announcement from the United States’ Authors Guild indicates that a Ukraine-based digital retailer of pirated books has been permanently closed in a successful legal action. ![]()
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