Palin's Publisher Sues Gawker over Book Excerpts

[chriscraft]

Source: CBS news

(AP) The publisher of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book filed a lawsuit against Gawker Media on Friday for leaking pages of "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag" before its release next week.

The legal complaint was filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, said a spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers. The filing came two days after Gawker published images of 21 of the book's pages and its dedication page. In response, Palin tweeted, "Isn't that illegal?"

Her publisher contends it is. The lawsuit asks that Gawker be banned from what it terms "further copyright infringement" and that Gawker deliver the source material to the publisher so it can be destroyed. HarperCollins is also seeking financial damages.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/19/politics/main7072400.shtml

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Oh sure Palin's an idiot, Oh sure she's an airhead. Oh sure she's a joke.

But Palin and her handlers are pushing back and that makes them dangerous. Have we seen a Democrat do this? Kerry and the swiftboaters? Obama? Anyone?

Dismiss this phenomena at your peril.

Remember "It can't happen here".

[Trajan]

1. Push back again ....

Fuck her .... We should NEVER live in fear of that fake ....

I reject your admonition ...

[chriscraft]

2. Well thought out response, just fuck her.

I'll wager that's what David Kernell said too, before the 1 year prison sentence.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/palin-hacker-sentenced/

Oh ya, she's stupid alright.

[Tess49]

3. Did you come here to try and convince us that she isn't stupid? n/t

[Frisbee]

4. She is a dimwit, there is little doubt about that...

but that doesn't mean her lawyers and hangers-on are. The scary part is that she IS a dimwit, and still has power and influence.

[leftofcool]

6. And repukes have no problem voting for a dimwit

[herbm]

9. And so do a lot Democrats. I'm GOP and I wouldn't vote for her at gunpoint.

[herbm]

8. False equivalency alert

[Trajan]

12. Ooh ..... Someone commits a crime and goes to prison ...

So therefore; Lay off of Palin because she is SOOOOO tough ....

What kind of pusillanimous life do you intend to lead ? ....

Do your children know how weak and spineless you have become ?

I don't give one holey F*CK about that fraud of a human being ...

Nor of her supporters here in DU ...

[rocktivity]

17. Comparing an e-mail hacker to a backfiring publicity stunt

is what's stupid.

Besides, where could Gawker have gotten the pages if not through her publisher? Maybe this is their way of covering their own asses.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[alittlelark]

5. The $$$whore is whoring for more $$$$$

.....say it isn't so.

[herbm]

7. I smell PUBLICITY and it smells like moose poop.

[Gin]

10. how did they get the advance copy to use the excerpts?

[herbm]

11. Advance copies of books and movies are always out there sometimes weeks ahead of a release. There's

a thriving market in advance copies and a large black market in ones sold prior to the official release.

[Mz Pip]

13. True

and I wouldn't put it past the Palin crowd to leak on purpose to manufacture another poutrage and controversy to drum up publicity.

[herbm]

14. Like I said above this "publicity" smells just like moose poop.

[uncle ray]

15. what? the exerpts that she plagerized in the first place?

[kestrel91316]

16. The mom you'd like to fuck isn't just stupid, she's a stupid ho.

Yeah......I DID just say that. LOL

[struggle4progress]

18. New York judge orders Gawker to pull Palin book pages

The Associated Press

Published: November 20th, 2010 06:40 PM
Last Modified: November 20th, 2010 06:41 PM

NEW YORK -- A federal judge today ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag" from its blog.

The injunction prohibits Gawker from "continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book" pending a hearing on Nov. 30.

HarperCollins Publishers had sued Gawker after it published images on Nov. 17 from Palin's book before its release next week ...

http://www.adn.com/2010/11/20/1564728/new-york-judge-orders-gawker-to.html

[wordpix]

19. who wants to read her dimwitted brain farts anyway?

[Johnny Harpo]

20. Maybe The Publisher Should Sue Sarah....

for being such a twit.

[goforit]

21. A set up for a publicity show? Pallin paying off someone from Gawker?