The 1709 Blog bericht: "To Kill a Mockingbird is the Pulitzer prize winning book written by Harper Lee. The quasi autobiographical novel is based around the trial on a innocent black American, Tom Robinson, wrongfully accused and then convicted of raping a white woman. Set over three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the novel focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer who defends Tom Robinson. It was made into a motion picture, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus, which won three Academy Awards, quickly grossing more than $20 million from a $2 million budget. Published in 1960, the book is hugely popular and a set text in many US schools, and has been through numerous subsequent printings and became widely available through it's inclusion in the Book of the Month Club and editions released by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. In the years since publication, it has sold over 30 million copies and been translated into over 40 languages.
However, it has now been made clear that Harper Lee, now aged 87, does not own the copyright to her book. That is owned by Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's former literary agent, and a company he allegedly created. The author has now filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan, to re-secure the copyright and claiming unspecified damages: the lawsuit alleges that when her long-time literary agent, Eugene Winick, became ill in 2002, his son-in-law, Pinkus, switched several of Mr Winick's clients, who were with Winick's firm McIntosh and Otis, to his own company. Those authors included Lee."
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Harper Lee files action to reclaim To Kill A Mockingbird copyright
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