>But if he tries to sue Grigore (even if he was in the States) he would lose
>for sure and I'm sure JVP knows that full well.

Don't forget, there's no need to sue here: if I read the posts correctly, JVP already explicitly granted Grigore the right to translate his work. He just wanted to make sure Grigore knew that Pinnacle did not have the rights they claimed to have, and that translating the other authors' works could be illegal.