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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Books Stop the Presses

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM

If you're working on a manuscript titled Franny and Zooey and the Legend of Curly's Gold or Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, For a Second Time, you might want to put it on hold for a little bit. Reuters says:

A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday temporarily halted publication of a novel using characters from J.D. Salinger's classic "Catcher in the Rye" written without the original author's permission.

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The Amazing Jim 1
Fuck. I was almost done with 1984 II: The Bigger Brother.
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on June 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Urgutha Forka 2
@1
Except 1984 was written by Orwell
Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM
3
So "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, 'Cause Franny & Zooey Are Coming Over to Read Nine Stories" is probably out, too?
Posted by Gary on June 17, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Aislinn 4
@3: You should probably go ahead and write that one anyway, just in case Salinger dies before he hears about it. Or dies *when* he hears about it. Either way, no lawsuit!
Posted by Aislinn on June 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM
5
Mine was actually called Raise Higher the Roof Beams, Carpenters. Drats.
Posted by Christin http://twitter.com/scottique on June 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM
6
Catcher in the Rye is the most overrated book in the history of literature.
Posted by drwas on June 18, 2009 at 6:30 AM
g 7
http://questioncopyright.org
Posted by g on June 18, 2009 at 7:07 AM
The Amazing Jim 8
2 - Really? Huh, so because it wasn't written by Salinger I can go ahead with my manuscript?
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on June 18, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Greg 9
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
Posted by Greg on June 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM

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