OTW & fair use case
May. 4th, 2010 03:24 pmSo, last week, the Second Circuit reversed the injunction against 60 Years Later Coming Through the Rye, which is a sequel of sorts to The Catcher in the Rye, in which, from what I can tell, a 76-year-old man named "Mr. C" becomes aware that he's a fictional character and eventually meets up with his creator, a thinly-veiled version of Salinger, who regrets having created him and is thinking of killing him off. I gather that's as far as the author goes in filing off the serial numbers, so to speak, and it was marketed as a sequel to Catcher in the Rye.
The OTW had filed an amicus brief in the case, so I was kind of curious to see what the court had said.
( in which I read the whole ruling, and it was not as tough slogging as I'd have expected )
(Warning: layperson's interpretations.)
The OTW had filed an amicus brief in the case, so I was kind of curious to see what the court had said.
( in which I read the whole ruling, and it was not as tough slogging as I'd have expected )
(Warning: layperson's interpretations.)