Court documents filed in the case describe Mr. Salinger, declined to comment on the case, citing her client’s desire for privacy. “In Sweden we don’t sue people,” he said. Colting, who is also the writer and publisher of lowbrow humor books for Nicotext, a Swedish company he started with a friend six years ago, said in a telephone interview that he never imagined that his book, which he described as his first attempt at serious fiction, might end up in court. Jenkins said, citing a Supreme Court ruling that a legitimate work must add “something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the first with new expression, meaning or message.” In examining questions of fair use of copyrighted work, courts have looked at whether a new work transforms the original in a significant way, Ms. Rowling, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter books, won a lawsuit over a guidebook to the series called The Harry Potter Lexicon. In 2001 the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone With the Wind,” sued unsuccessfully to prevent the release of “The Wind Done Gone,” which told the same story from the perspective of a slave. The case is one of several in recent years exploring how much license the public has to draw on a classic work. C by various means: a runaway truck falling construction debris a lunatic woman with a knife suicide by drowning and suicide by pills.” Salinger’ tries repeatedly to kill off Mr. It adds: “In order to regain control over his own life, which is drawing to a close, ‘Mr. ‘Red Comet’: Heather Clark’s new biography of the poet Sylvia Plath is daring, meticulously researched and unexpectedly riveting.‘Intimacies’: Katie Kitamura’s novel follows an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world.‘On Juneteenth’: Annette Gordon-Reed explores the racial and social complexities of Texas, her home state, weaving history and memoir.‘How Beautiful We Were’: Imbolo Mbue’s second novel is a tale of a casually sociopathic corporation and the people whose lives it steamrolls.Editors at The Times Book Review selected the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year.
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