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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, 45th President of the United States of America, in his individual capacity,
Civil Action Number:
v.
SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., a New York corporation, ROBERT WOODWARD p.k.a.
BOB WOODWARD, an individual, and PARAMOUNT GLOBAL, a Delaware
corporation f/k/a VIACOMCBS, INC., a Delaware corporation, f/k/a Viacom Inc., successor by merger to CBSCorporation,
a Pennsylvania corporation f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation,
Defendants.
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
Civil Action Number:
v.
SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., a New York corporation, ROBERT WOODWARD p.k.a.
BOB WOODWARD, an individual, and PARAMOUNT GLOBAL, a Delaware
corporation f/k/a VIACOMCBS, INC., a Delaware corporation, f/k/a Viacom Inc., successor by merger to CBSCorporation,
a Pennsylvania corporation f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation,
Defendants.
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
Nature of Action
“The media today probably does not dig deeply enough or spend sufficient time on stories. The best way to ensure that sources will be open and honest is to treat them fairly.” This is an excerpt from a response provided by journalist Bob Woodward posted in a Questions and Answers section on his website, bobwoodward.com. When it came to treating President Trump fairly, Mr. Woodward talked the talk, but he failed to walk the walk.
This case centers on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump gathered in connection with a series of interviews conducted by Mr. Woodward. Said audio was protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution—as a matter of copyright, license, contract, basic principles of the publishing industry, and core values of fairness and consent. In usurping, manipulating, and exploiting such material, Mr. Woodward has acted in concert with (i) SSI, a major publishing company which brings the work of many authors, including Woodward, to hundreds of countries and territories, and (ii) SSI’s parent company, Paramount. Individually and collectively, these entities have systematically, blatantly, and unlawfully usurped President Trump’s copyright interests, his contractual rights, and the rights he holds as an interviewee,1 through the publication of an audiobook (and other works, as set forth below) predicated upon the subject audio—solely for their own financial gain and without any accounting or recompense to him.
“The media today probably does not dig deeply enough or spend sufficient time on stories. The best way to ensure that sources will be open and honest is to treat them fairly.” This is an excerpt from a response provided by journalist Bob Woodward posted in a Questions and Answers section on his website, bobwoodward.com. When it came to treating President Trump fairly, Mr. Woodward talked the talk, but he failed to walk the walk.
This case centers on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump gathered in connection with a series of interviews conducted by Mr. Woodward. Said audio was protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution—as a matter of copyright, license, contract, basic principles of the publishing industry, and core values of fairness and consent. In usurping, manipulating, and exploiting such material, Mr. Woodward has acted in concert with (i) SSI, a major publishing company which brings the work of many authors, including Woodward, to hundreds of countries and territories, and (ii) SSI’s parent company, Paramount. Individually and collectively, these entities have systematically, blatantly, and unlawfully usurped President Trump’s copyright interests, his contractual rights, and the rights he holds as an interviewee,1 through the publication of an audiobook (and other works, as set forth below) predicated upon the subject audio—solely for their own financial gain and without any accounting or recompense to him.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079.1.0.pdf
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