Rowling and Salinger have now both successfully thwarted un-influential wannabes and fans-turned-enemies. But, at least for the time being that's one less crappy book in the world.
Actually, it is unclear as to whether J.D. California will have to lose his book (although now if he doesn't he probably will be thankful for all the publicity), as the presiding judge has issued a temporary restraining order, keeping him from publishing but also not deciding if the character in his book is covered by fair use.
Click here to read the report of the decision in Publisher's Weekly.
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That should read "Holden Caufield (C) is Copyrighted..."
This is a very interesting link. It's to a blog where the person talks about pop songs based on books. In honor of this trial, he did ones based on Catcher in the Rye. So, I guess Salinger doesn't listen to that damned rock n' roll music:
http://theclassicsrock.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-wrote-holden-caulfieldgreen-day.html
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