Legal Environment 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson

Exercise 16

Fredrik Colting wrote a book entitled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, a riff on J. D. Salinger's famous Catcher in the Rye. Colting's book imagined how Salinger's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, would view life as a 76-year old. Alice Randall wrote a novel entitled The Wind Done Gone, which retells the Civil War novel Gone with the Wind from the perspective of Scarlett O'Hara's (imagined) black half-sister. Both Colting and Randall were sued and both alleged fair use. Should they win?