IP: Ban on 'Gone with the Wind' Parody Overturned

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:02:22 -0700
>To: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu
>From: Bob Hinden <hinden@iprg.nokia.com>
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>>Ban on 'Gone with the Wind' Parody Overturned
>><http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010525/ts/arts_wind_dc_2.html>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010525/ts/arts_wind_dc_2.html 
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>>Friday May 25 1:19 PM ET
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>>Ban on 'Gone with the Wind' Parody Overturned
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>>By Karen Jacobs
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>>ATLANTA (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned a 
>>publication ban on a black writer's apparent parody of the epic novel of 
>>the Old South ``Gone With The Wind,'' written from the point of view of 
>>black slaves instead of Southern aristocrats.
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>>A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 
>>(<http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22U.S.%20Circuit%20Court%20of%20Appeals%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news>news 
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>><http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=U.S.%20Circuit%20Court%20of%20Appeals>web 
>>sites) in Atlanta had been asked by the publisher of Alice Randall's 
>>''The Wind Done Gone,'' to overturn a lower court ruling in April that 
>>prevented publication of Randall's book due to alleged copyright 
>>infringement of Margaret Mitchell's ``Gone With The Wind.''
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>>``It is manifest that the entry of a preliminary injunction in this 
>>copyright case was an abuse of discretion in that it represents an 
>>unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment (of the U.S. 
>>Constitution),'' the appeals court said in its ruling.
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