{"id":11894,"date":"2010-05-30T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2010-05-30T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T14:25:16","slug":"frye-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/05\/30\/frye-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/60yearslater.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11895\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/05\/60yearslater.gif\" alt=\"60yearslater\" width=\"250\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Frye is called on in a 2009 amicus curiae brief in a case against Frederik Coulting by J.D. Salinger, who had asserted that Coulting\u2019s book, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_David_California\" target=\"_blank\">60 Years Later<\/a><em>, \u201cinfringes [his] copyright rights in . . . the character Holden Caulfield.\u201d\u00a0 (Frye&#8217;s remarks on Salinger in an earlier post <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2010\/01\/29\/frye-on-salinger\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p>J.D. SALINGER, individually and as trustee of the J.D. Salinger Literary Trust, Plaintiff-Appellee,<\/p>\n<p>v. FREDRIK COLTING, writing under the name John David California, WINDUPBIRD PUBLISHING LTD., NICOTEXT A.B. and ABP, INC., doing business as SCB Distributors, Inc.,<\/p>\n<p>Defendants-Appellants.<\/p>\n<p>On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE PUBLIC CITIZEN, INC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ability to \u201cbuild freely upon the ideas\u201d in others\u2019 work is essential to First Amendment protection because even the most creative or artistic activity depends on the ability to borrow from what has gone before.\u00a0 \u201cPoetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.\u201d Northrop Frye, <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> 97 (1957). As Frye put it, we have inherited \u201ca literature which includes Chaucer, much of whose poetry is translated or paraphrased from others; Shakespeare, whose plays sometimes<\/p>\n<p>follow their sources almost verbatim; and Milton, who asked for nothing better than to steal as much as possible out of the Bible\u201d (p. 16 of the brief).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frye is called on in a 2009 amicus curiae brief in a case against Frederik Coulting by J.D. Salinger, who had asserted that Coulting\u2019s book, 60 Years Later, \u201cinfringes [his] copyright rights in . . . the character Holden Caulfield.\u201d\u00a0 (Frye&#8217;s remarks on Salinger in an earlier post here.) 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