Judge orders Gawker to take down leaked images from Sarah Palin's unpublished book By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 09:28 EST, xxx 21 November 2010 Web fight: Publishers of a book by Sarah Palin have forced website Gawker to remove images from its site A federal judge today ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book from its blogsite. The injunction prohibits Gawker from 'continuing to distribute, publish or otherwise transmit pages from the book', pending a hearing on November 30.
HarperCollins Publishers had sued Gawker after it published images on November 17 from Palin's book - which has the catchy title America By Heart: Reflections On Family, Faith And Flag - before its release next week. In response to the posting of the photos, Mrs Palin tweeted: 'Isn't that illegal?' Gawker defended its action in a post on Thursday titled 'Sarah Palin is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book'. The site addressed a message to 'Sarah' telling her to read pages about fair use under copyright law - 'Or skip the totally boring reading and call one of your lawyers...
they'll walk you through it'. But it seems the folks at Gawker should have called one of their own lawyers to walth them through their liability, because HarperCollins filed a legal complaint on Friday in federal court asking that the site be banned from what it termed 'further copyright infringement'. Gawker Media LLC could not be contacted for comment over today's ruling, but appears to have removed the images from its site.
The blog was not the first site to publish excerpts from the book, which has been billed as a tribute to American values, but it refused to take them down after receiving a letter demanding that it do so, the lawsuit said. The Associated Press bought a copy of the book ahead of its November 23 release date. In it, Palin praises Simon Cowell and the movies Juno, 'Knocked Up and 40-Year-Old Virgin. She accuses President Barack Obama of reflecting 'a stark lack of faith in the American people'. Mrs Palin's first book, the memoir Going Rogue, has sold more than 2 million copies.
HarperCollins Publishers had sued Gawker after it published images on November 17 from Palin's book - which has the catchy title America By Heart: Reflections On Family, Faith And Flag - before its release next week. In response to the posting of the photos, Mrs Palin tweeted: 'Isn't that illegal?' Gawker defended its action in a post on Thursday titled 'Sarah Palin is Mad at Us for Leaking Pages From Her Book'. The site addressed a message to 'Sarah' telling her to read pages about fair use under copyright law - 'Or skip the totally boring reading and call one of your lawyers...
they'll walk you through it'. But it seems the folks at Gawker should have called one of their own lawyers to walth them through their liability, because HarperCollins filed a legal complaint on Friday in federal court asking that the site be banned from what it termed 'further copyright infringement'. Gawker Media LLC could not be contacted for comment over today's ruling, but appears to have removed the images from its site.
The blog was not the first site to publish excerpts from the book, which has been billed as a tribute to American values, but it refused to take them down after receiving a letter demanding that it do so, the lawsuit said. The Associated Press bought a copy of the book ahead of its November 23 release date. In it, Palin praises Simon Cowell and the movies Juno, 'Knocked Up and 40-Year-Old Virgin. She accuses President Barack Obama of reflecting 'a stark lack of faith in the American people'. Mrs Palin's first book, the memoir Going Rogue, has sold more than 2 million copies.