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Ban Lifted on Gone with the Wind ParodyA federal appeals court overturned May 25 a ban on the publication of a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind imposed by Judge Charles Pannell in April. Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone was scheduled for publication by Houghton Mifflin in June, but the Margaret Mitchell estate sued, claiming copyright infringement in the use of Mitchell’s characters. A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said in its ruling, “It is manifest that the entry of a preliminary injunction in this copyright case was an abuse of discretion in that it represents an unlawful prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment,” according to a May 25 Reuters report. “I put a lot of heart and soul into this book,” Randall remarked after the decision. “It’s important now for everyone to get a chance to read it.” Lawyers for the Mitchell estate said they would ask the entire court to rehear the case. Posted May 28, 2001. |
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