Preliminary injunction vacated in The Wind Done Gone

This is from October 10, 2001, but I didn't hear about it until today. As you ought to know, there's ongoing litigation about a novel by Alice Randall called The Wind Done Gone (TWDG). A large part of TWDG is essentially the story of Gone With The Wind (GWTW) re-told from the slaves' point of view. It apparently makes GWTW look like racist tripe. So - is that copyright infringement? The first court to hear the case thought so (technically, that "there was a likelihood of success on the merits"), and granted a preliminary injunction against publication of TWDG. The new decision disagrees, highlighting (among other important points) that copyright law should never be used to prevent criticism, and the "damage" that a critic does by revealing flaws in another work is not actionable. Naturally, that's of special interest to me in light of the cp4break affair. More documents about TWDG on the Houghton Mifflin Web site. [Preliminary injunction vacated in The Wind Done Gone]

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Preliminary injunction vacated in The Wind Done Gone

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