Authors Guild
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30th December 2021
U.S. District Court Grants Win to Plaintiffs in Kiss Library eBook Piracy Suit
Authors Guild members, Amazon Publishing and Penguin Random House come together to combat ebook piracy
Seattle (December 30, 2021): The U.S. Court for the Western District of Washington awarded $7.8 million in statutory damages to 12 Authors Guild members, Amazon Publishing, and Penguin Random House for 52 acts of copyright infringement in a default judgment against Kiss Library, permanently shutting down the Ukraine-based ebook piracy ring. In a decisive opinion on December 20, 2021, Judge Mar