The New York Times has an interesting story on a copyright case involving a possible sequel to The Catcher in the Rye
The judge, Deborah A. Batts of United States District Court in Manhattan, granted a 10-day temporary restraining order forbidding publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that contains a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield while she considers arguments in a copyright-infringement case filed by Mr. Salinger.
His lawyers contend that the new work is too derivative and that the characters in
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