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Judge Annoints J.D. Salinger the King of the Internet [Lawsuits]
Posted on July 02, 2009
J.D. Salinger invented blogs, according to a federal judge who granted a temporary injunction yesterday against John David California's planned parody of Catcher in the Rye. California, whose real name is Fredrik Colting and who lives improbably in Sweden, wrote a book called 60 Years Later as an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye, featuring a very Caufield-esque 76-year-old who escapes from a nursing home and wanders the streets of Manhattan. Salinger sued to prevent its publication, claiming copyright, and a federal judge ruled yesterday that it's suffiently similar to Catcher that ...
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