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Sequel to "Catcher in the Rye" Banned in the U.S.
Swedish author Fredrik Colting reached a settlement with Salinger's estate to end a lengthy copyright dispute over the book, Publishers Weekly said.
As part of the deal, the book cannot be published in the US or Canada. But it can be sold in other countries.
Colting must also stop calling his work 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.
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How is copyright infringement a sequel? There would be a lot less authors if someone was able to steal ones work and write a 'sequel'. I should start working on a new sequel to Harry Potter. The term 'banned' belongs in the no spin zone.
I take it you're not a fan of WICKED? ;)
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The Wizard of OZ was published in 1900 and (like Sherlock Holmes) is in the public domain. You can use the characters as you please just be sure not to infringe on the visual copyrights of the 1939 movie. MGM has deeper pockets than the Salinger family.
I liked Wicked a lot. :)
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How is copyright infringement a sequel? There would be a lot less authors if someone was able to steal ones work and write a 'sequel'. I should start working on a new sequel to Harry Potter. The term 'banned' belongs in the no spin zone.I take it you're not a fan of WICKED? ;)
I think this case has a closer analogy in Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, which was based on characters and events from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. (Gone with the Wind is also still protected by U.S. copyright law).
Randall skirted the copyright issue by claiming her work was a parody (in the legal sense), meaning that some elements of a prior author's work were used to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's work.
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