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The Wind Done Gone Lawsuit SettledLawyers for Margaret Mitchell’s estate have agreed to drop a lawsuit against Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone, in an out-of-court settlement, the Associated Press reported May 10. In April 2001, an Atlanta judge had blocked publication of Randall’s work—which tells the story of Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind from a slave’s point of view—ruling that it violated the copyright of Mitchell’s 1936 classic. A month later, a federal appeals court overturned that ban, and the book was published in June 2001. Although a federal appellate court in October affirmed the ruling that lifted the ban, lawyers for the Mitchell estate had said they would continue the lawsuit in the hopes of getting monetary damages. In the settlement, Houghton Mifflin will make an unspecified contribution to Morehouse College, a historically black school in Atlanta; in return, Mitchell’s estate will stop trying to block sales of Randall's book. Posted May 20, 2002. |
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