A new year brings with it a new copyright infringement suit at the Puerto Rico Federal District Court. According to the complaint, plaintiff and author, Ana Delgado, wrote a book titled “Terromoto, Mi Historia”. She paid $1,000.00 to OmniPress to edit and publish her book. To date, OmniPress has not delivered the requested copies of the book to the author while at the same time, selling the book in the US and internationally.
No license or contract agreements seems to have been signed by the parties, giving the impression that OmniPress did not have a license or right to engage in the unauthorized reproduction or distribution as alleged in the Complaint.
We’ll see what defenses OmniPress raises once it enters its answer to the complaint, but this case underscores something we have repeated many times: Always get a license (in writing)!
Here is the complaint:
