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HarperCollins Sues Open Road Over E-Book Rights

HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, a children’s book published in 1972.

HarperCollins filed its lawsuit on December 23. The company says its contract with George, signed in 1971, gives it the right to publish Julie of the Wolves in any format. Publishers Weekly has some of the text of the complaint: “The rights that HarperCollins acquired from George plainly encompass such electronic means of distribution, which is but a technology-enabled variant for how consumers can read the Work.”