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Let's hope no other countries get any ideas:
http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_1279_text
"On April 23, 2009, a federal district court in the southern Russian province of Dagestan issued an unprecedented ruling, ordering a journalist of a local newspaper to pay compensation in an amount equal to US$1,000 to
a writer who did not like a review of his book published in the newspaper."
According to the rest of the article, the book was a novel that had been reviewed in the newspaper. The author sued, claiming that both he and his family "experienced severe mental suffering." He also claimed that he experienced chest pains, among other symptoms, after reading the review. He was actually asking for the equivalent of $150,000 in compensation for the review, so he is unhappy with the result, as is, of course, the author.
I know some authors hate bad reviews -- I've dealt with some on my reader list that really couldn't take them. I mean really really couldn't take them. But I'm sure even they wouldn't take things this far. (Well I hope not anyway.)
Let's hope Russian courts can work this out. And let's hope this case doesn't inspire similar cases across the world.
http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_1279_text
"On April 23, 2009, a federal district court in the southern Russian province of Dagestan issued an unprecedented ruling, ordering a journalist of a local newspaper to pay compensation in an amount equal to US$1,000 to
a writer who did not like a review of his book published in the newspaper."
According to the rest of the article, the book was a novel that had been reviewed in the newspaper. The author sued, claiming that both he and his family "experienced severe mental suffering." He also claimed that he experienced chest pains, among other symptoms, after reading the review. He was actually asking for the equivalent of $150,000 in compensation for the review, so he is unhappy with the result, as is, of course, the author.
I know some authors hate bad reviews -- I've dealt with some on my reader list that really couldn't take them. I mean really really couldn't take them. But I'm sure even they wouldn't take things this far. (Well I hope not anyway.)
Let's hope Russian courts can work this out. And let's hope this case doesn't inspire similar cases across the world.
