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Appeals court lifts Wind Gone injunction| ATLANTA, Georgia, May 21, 2001 -- The First Amendment allows author Alice Randall to parody the classic Civil War novel Gone With the Wind, a three-judge federal appeals panel ruled. The decision clears the way for Houghton Mifflin to resume publication of Randall's The Wind Done Gone. A lower court had barred the book after the estate of Margaret Mitchell, who wrote the original in 1936, claimed Randall had infringed on the copyright by drawing heavily on Mitchell's theme. The Randall story takes place on a plantation that the slaves call "Tata," as opposed to "Tara" in the original. Houghton and Randall defended the new book as a parody as old from the point of view of Cynara, the slave who is a half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara, the Southern belle who is Mitchell's main character. Generally parodies are allowed under copyright law. |
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Houghton had wide support for Randall| ATLANTA, Georgia, May 21, 2001 -- The First Amendment community rallied to Houghton Mifflin in appealing an Atlanta federal judge's ruling that Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone was a ripoff of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind from the 1930s. Filing amicus brief with the appeals court were the Foundation for Free Expression of the American Bar Association, the Freedom to Read Foundation of the Association of American Publishers, the Boston Globe, CNN, Microsoft, the New York Times, the PEN America Center. |
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Virginia Press looks to Chicago for new director| CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, May 1, 2001 -- A veteran at the University of Chicago Press for 32 years, Penelope Kaiserlian, was named director of the University of Virginia Press to succeed Nancy Essig, who retired Most recently Kaiserlian has been associate director and editor-in-chief at Chicago. Her Virginia duties begin in mid-August. |
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