On 6/26/2011 3:41 PM, Ricardo F Diogo wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone please tell me if PG has ever faced any trouble with any authors or publishers for copyright reasons? Did we ever had to remove any books from our catalog? Were there any copyright related conflicts? Are they documented somewhere? (A postgraduation student needs this info for a college paper).
Supposedly PG Australia was approached by the Margaret Mitchell Estate for releasing "Gone with the Wind", but it was PD in Australia, so I don't think they got anywhere. I don't know anyone at PG Australia for your student to contact. The student should contact Greg Newby for details of copyright claims for books released by PG. I believe that there was at least one work that was removed because it was still in copyright, and I think there were several more which were temporarily removed pending further investigation, but were restored after the copyright claims were found to be erroneous.