Mississippi Business Journal » novel http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Lawsuit over Faulkner quote will go to trial in 2014 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/lawsuit-over-faulkner-quote-will-go-to-trial-in-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lawsuit-over-faulkner-quote-will-go-to-trial-in-2014 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/lawsuit-over-faulkner-quote-will-go-to-trial-in-2014/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:52:23 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73456 OXFORD — A lawsuit filed by William Faulkner’s heirs over a quote in the Woody Allen film “Midnight in Paris” has been scheduled for trial April 7, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Oxford. The Faulkner estate sued Sony Pictures Classics Inc. in October 2011, saying the company infringed on copyright when actor Owen Wilson [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/17/lawsuit-over-faulkner-quote-will-go-to-trial-in-2014/feed/ 0 One Faulkner lawsuit tossed, Sony lobbies to dismiss another http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/10/judge-tosses-copyright-lawsuit-brought-by-faulkners-estate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-tosses-copyright-lawsuit-brought-by-faulkners-estate http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/10/judge-tosses-copyright-lawsuit-brought-by-faulkners-estate/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:44:42 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67966 OXFORD — The estate of William Faulkner has settled a copyright lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp. and The Washington Post Co. for using a Faulkner quote in a newspaper ad by the defense contractor. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate in Jackson dismissed the lawsuit Dec. 12. Terms of the settlement are sealed. The Faulkner [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/10/judge-tosses-copyright-lawsuit-brought-by-faulkners-estate/feed/ 0 The Marriage Plot: Award-winning author returns with compelling novel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/02/the-marriage-plot-award-winning-author-returns-with-compelling-novel/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:00:13 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=46737 There are several things to recommend “The Marriage Plot” — he author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer; for the literary minded, the book is full of ‘bookish’ issues and mentions of great novels; and the owner of Square Books, Richard Howarth, thinks it is good. “In the opening third of Jeffrey Eugenides’ brilliant new novel [...]

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