Judge rules kids’ versions of classic novels violate copyrights

Keith J. Kelly
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:56:59 -0400

A federal judge has ruled that the publisher of popular kids’ versions of books by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote and Arthur C. Clarke is infringing on the copyrights of the famous novelists. Moppet Books last year had pumped out 20,000 copies each of illustrated books based on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the...