![]() ![]() With us now to explain, Martin Garbus a partner at Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnet, Kline and Sells, represents the Mitchell estate. Margaret Mitchell's estate says it is copyright infringement. Author Alice Randall says the book is a parody. The new unpublished book with slight name changes of people and place, retells that story from a slave's point of view, and not just any slave, but Scarlet's imagined mulatto half- sister. ![]() Perhaps better known as an Oscar-winning film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, it has become part of popular American culture. ![]() First published in 1936, Gone with the Wind has never gone out of print. But how much does it owe? That's the question making its way through the courts right now in a case that pits intellectual property rights against an artist's freedom of speech. Even the title of the book, The Wind Done Gone, owes a debt to Margaret Mitchell's civil war epic Gone with the Wind. ![]()
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