Bob Woodward seeks to end Donald Trump's lawsuit over audiobook; Reuters, September 12, 2023

Jonathan Stempel, Reuters; Bob Woodward seeks to end Donald Trump's lawsuit over audiobook

"The American journalist Bob Woodward is seeking to end former President Donald Trump's nearly $50 million lawsuit for publishing tapes from interviews for Woodward's 2020 best-seller "Rage" as an audiobook.

Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster and the publisher's parent Paramount Global (PARA.O) filed a motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit on Monday in Manhattan federal court, where the case had been transferred last month from Pensacola, Florida."

Trump Lawyers Argue Copyright Suit Against Woodward, S&S Should Proceed; Publishers Weekly, July 3, 2023

Andrew Albanese, Forbes ; Trump Lawyers Argue Copyright Suit Against Woodward, S&S Should Proceed

"In a filing last week, lawyers for former president Donald Trump argued that Trump's $50 million copyright lawsuit against bestselling author Bob Woodward and publisher Simon & Schuster over the audiobook, The Trump Tapes: The Historical Record, should be allowed to proceed...

Trump's latest filing comes in response to a motion to dismiss by Woodward and S&S, which, among its arguments, insists that because the interviews were conducted while Trump was acting in his capacity as president of the United States, Trump holds no copyright interest in them. Trump's claim "offends the basic principle codified in the Copyright Act that government officials cannot own the words they speak while carrying out official duties," lawyers for Woodward and S&S argue, adding that "President Trump’s unprecedented effort to extract private benefit from his public duties should be dismissed in its entirety.""