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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the injunction from last July banning publication of Frederick Colting’s 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye and returned the case to the original District Court, even though the appellate judges agreed that “that Salinger is likely to succeed on the merits of his copyright infringement claim.” (They also agree that the defendants “are not likely to prevail in their fair use defense.) So Colting is still expected to eventually lose in court–the question is whether the injunction barring publication while the case moves through the judicial process will stand. The District […]

Before dying of lung cancer in fall 2002, historian Stephen Ambrose’s reputation was tarnished as Forbes and other publications found evidence of plagiarism in Ambrose’s works–first in his book THE WILD BLUE, but then in at least six other books and even his doctoral thesis. Now much of Ambrose’s work about Dwight D. Eisenhower appears to be fabricated or at least mispresented, as the Eisenhower Presidential Library has found evidence that the two men likely never spent more than a few hours together. As the New Yorker notes, “Ambrose had made his name chronicling the life of Eisenhower. More than […]

The Department of Education has proposed stripping the independent non-profit Reading Is Fundamental of their federal grant–which comprises 75 percent of their annual revenues. The DOE’s plan is that RIF and the National Writing Project–also set to lose funding–would compete for funds on a state-by-state basis. Department spokesman Dave Thomas says “this proposed approach will give state education agencies and local education agencies greater flexibility to focus on their areas of greatest need and will be more effective than the narrow categorical programs.” Or it will mean that the organization spends a big chunk of its resources on administration and […]