Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin

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"Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin Co.", 252 F. 3d 1165 (11th Cir. 2001) per curiam, opinion at 268 F.3d 1257, was a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit against the owner of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind", vacating an injunction prohibiting the publisher of Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone" from distributing the book. Some say that this case stands for the principle that the creation and publication of a carefully-written parody novel in the United States counts as fair use. However, publisher Houghton paid a substantial settlement, prompted by the findings of both the District Court and the Appeals Court that Randall's copying was excessive. The Mitchell heirs lost only in the sense that they were unable to enjoin publication, yet the Court recognized that they had suffered a harm [that] can adequately be remedied through an award of monetary damages. In permitting parody without permission, the decision follows the previous United States Supreme Court decision in "Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc." which ruled that 2 Live Crew's unlicensed use of the bass line from Roy Orbison's song "Oh, Pretty Woman" constituted fair use under copyright law and extends that principle from songs to novels and is binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit.

(References: Mitchell Estate Settles Gone With the Wind Suit, The New York Times May 10, 2002; Settlement reached over Wind Done Gone, The Associated Press, May 10, 2002.)

External links

* [http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/11th/0112200opnv2.html Text of the case]
* [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/telecom/netanelcopyrightand1stam.pdf Locating Copyright within the First Amendment Skein] by N. W. Netanel 54 "Stanford Law Review" 101


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