Christian author Christine Caine and her publisher HarperCollins Christian Publishing (HCCP)/Zondervan have reached a settlement with her colleague Carey Scott, who accused Caine of copyright infringement.
Caine, a Christian author and founder of anti-human trafficking organization The A21 Campaign, was accused of copyright infringement in May after Scott received a promotional video from Caine’s team for her new book Unashamed. While watching the video Scott realized that the first thirty-seconds of the video sounded like a part of her book Untangled.
Scott told Publishers Weekly, “About two weeks before Caine’s book Unashamed was set to launch, I received a promotional email that contained a two-minute book trailer video. Some of the wording at the beginning of the video sounded very familiar, and after some digging I discovered that the first 30 seconds of her personal narration on the promo video came directly from a paragraph on page 55 of my book.”
“There are several examples of direct copying and substantial similarities,” she added.
Scott filed the suit against Caine in early May 2018 citing copyright infringement issues between her book Untangled and Caine’s book, Unashamed (Zondervan, May 2016), which according to the publisher has sold over 150,000 copies to date.
According to court documents, Scott was made…
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