Last year the estate of William Faulkner, embodying the labyrinthine, confusing stream-of-consciousness of the late author’s works, filed a lawsuit against the producers of Midnight In Paris, after concluding that a paraphrased, nine-word Faulker quote in the film constituted copyright infringement. But now a federal judge in Mississippi has tossed that suit, declaring that Owen Wilson’s passing reference to a passage from Requiem For A Nun (“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”) is, at best, “a fragment of the idea’s expression” and not the same as presenting the entire work as a whole ...
- 7/19/2013
- avclub.com
Though Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris was a huge critical success, not all are pleased by the film’s use of famous literary quotations. According to Faulkner Literary Rights, the rights-holders to William Faulkner’s work, the filmmaker had no right to use a quote from the author’s book Requiem For A Nun. The group is filing a suit citing copyright infringement, commercial appropriation and violation of the Lanham Act....
- 10/26/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
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