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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Excellent&amp;nbsp;post by Professor (and prominent First Amendment litigator and prolific &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;blogger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;) Marc Randazza &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;on the copyright infringement lawsuit that J.D. Salinger (or, as he is invariably called, &amp;#8220;the reclusive J.D. Salinger&amp;#8221;) has filed against one &amp;#8220;J.D. California.&amp;#8221;&amp;nbsp; Mr. California is the author of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, which depicts Holden Caulfield as an old man in a nursing home.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Randazza analyzes the case by channeling the voice of Holden himself:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;If you really want to hear about the suit, the first thing you&amp;#8217;ll probably want to know is what &amp;#8216;fair use&amp;#8217; is, and what Section 107 of the Copyright Act says and all that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=hb767nb3z6&amp;amp;doc.view=frames&amp;amp;chunk.id=div00084&amp;amp;toc.depth=1&amp;amp;toc.id=&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mel Nimmer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;kind of crap but I don&amp;#8217;t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. I don&amp;#8217;t really write this blog for people who don&amp;#8217;t know that kind of stuff already.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A spot-on impersonation as well as substantively interesting:&lt;span&gt; a&lt;/span&gt;ccording to Randazza, Salinger&amp;#8217;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Davis Wright Tremaine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;lawyers chose to file in the Southern District of New York&amp;nbsp;in the hope of taking&amp;nbsp;advantage of a favorable 1997 precedent&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;authored by the now non-obscure Sonia Sotomayor, then a SDNY district judge.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The defendant in that case&amp;nbsp;had written &amp;#8216;The Seinfeld Aptitude Test,&amp;#8217; a trivia quiz based on the TV show. In her decision in favor of Castle Rock (the production company for Seinfeld), Sotomayor applied what Randazza terms a &amp;#8220;quasi-trademark law view mixed with a bizarre and narrow view of the fair use doctrine&amp;#8221; and concluded that, since Castle Rock &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;might have one day &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;expanded their works into the trivia book realm, the defendant was infringing on Castle Rock&amp;#8217;s derivative use rights. (The Second Circuit upheld her opinion.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/id/31263/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The differences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;between literary hermits Salinger and Thomas Pynchon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Also see also: this blog&amp;#8217;s previous encounter &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;with the Professor Randazza &lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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