I wish there was a Kickstarter like non-profit organization whose focus was finding and defending worthy cases like this. People/organizations submit their situation and do the work of raising awareness and collecting pledges, the organization uses the money to oversee the actual legal case and pay the attorneys, ideally a network of folks who would be willing to consider defending said cases at a reduced or pro-bono rate when possible. Might even out the David-and-Goliath odds of corporation vs. small business/individual.
Rather than approaching it as a cause, could it be understood as gaining IP clearance and the the last step in the production of the novel; I mean, legitimately one of the last steps in making the specific novel a reality, not just a general cause.
The problem is that when you pay the legal fees for a party, you can be exposed to liability in certain cases. It's actually happened quite a few times.
