Posted on 10/26/2009 12:45:47 PM PDT by Mozilla
When Sarah Palin's big-bucks memoir "Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin" comes out Nov. 17, there'll be another book about her hitting the stores the same day: "Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, an American Nightmare."
The "Rouge" book, with a similar name and cover, will be put out by a new company, OR Books, says Publisher's Marketplace, which says it will be composed of "essays assembled by Nation editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed." Marketplace adds that "it promises 'progressive perspectives on Sarah Palin's political career' by writers including Naomi Klein, Jane Mayer, Katha Pollitt, Jim Hightower, Christopher Hayes, Gloria Steinem, Joe Conason, and Tom Frank."
Shouldn't there be a copyright trademark problem in this somewhere? Publishers Marketplace wondered, too:
... we asked Ned Himmelrich, head of the intellectual property department at law firm Gordon Feinblatt, for an assessment of whether the cheeky new cover crosses legal lines. "Although the first instinct is to believe that the 'Nightmare' book has to be infringing" the publishers "may have found a seam in Palin's protection."
(Excerpt) Read more at minnpost.com ...
Wherever she stands is the platform
The demand on printing and returns of ‘Rouge’ will hurt.
He buried his own career with those I remember.
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