Showing posts with label creating children's versions of copyrighted novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creating children's versions of copyrighted novels. Show all posts

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Author sued for making children's books of On the Road and Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Guardian, 1/19/17

Guardian Staff, Guardian; 

Author sued for making children's books of On the Road and Breakfast at Tiffany’s

"Swedish author Fredrik Colting is being sued for creating children’s versions of classic novels.

Colting, who was taken to court in 2010 for publishing an unofficial sequel to The Catcher in the Rye, is now the subject of a suit filed by Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and the estates of Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway and Arthur C Clarke.
Under the banner Moppet Books, Colting allegedly infringed copyright of four books: On the Road, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Old Man and The Sea and 2001: A Space Odyssey."