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Supreme Court 7-2 for Tasini authors| WASHINGTON, June 25, 2001 -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that several major publishing houses and database operators had infringed on author rights in reissuing their works in digital products with neither the authors' permision nor compensation. The case, Tasini v. the New York Times, was brought by several authors who felt cheated when their articles were recycled by publishers for resale on the web and other digital media. The lead plaintiff was Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers Union. The media companies, including the New York Times and AOL Time Warner, had lost twice in the federal appellate courts and took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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Publicity seen as Wind Done Gone boom| NEW YORK, June 9, 2001 -- The publisher of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, Houghton Mifflin, ordered a fourth printing to capitalize on demand from publicity from a law suit. The new printing will bring the number of copies to 163,000. Before the flap Houghton, planned only 25,000. Under court order, Houghton earlier halted publication until the suit, filed by heirs to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, sued for copyright infringement. Houghton prevailed in an appellate court by arguing that Randall was parodying Mitchell's work. Under case law, a parody may draw heavily on the original. Meanwhile, the Mitchell estate is seeking to have the latest judgment vacated. |
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