Mississippi Business Journal » writer http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Mon, 20 May 2013 18:59:44 +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 Faulkner heirlooms going up on auction block http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/faulkner-heirlooms-going-up-on-auction-block/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faulkner-heirlooms-going-up-on-auction-block http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/faulkner-heirlooms-going-up-on-auction-block/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:25:46 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=73019 OXFORD — It’s a literary treasure trove. William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Legion d’Honneur medal presented to him by France in 1951. Faulkner’s Nobel handwritten acceptance speech draft. All in an estate package that includes 26 letters and postcards sent by Faulkner, 25 leather-bound columns of the author’s work and manuscripts of [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/10/faulkner-heirlooms-going-up-on-auction-block/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 Mississippi photographer/ writer Franke Keating dies at 95 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/05/mississippi-photographerwriter-franke-keating-dies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mississippi-photographerwriter-franke-keating-dies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/05/mississippi-photographerwriter-franke-keating-dies/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:23:10 +0000 Ross Reily http://msbusiness.com/?p=48208 Greenville’s Franke Keating, known world-wide as one of the most celebrated photographers for National Geographic, died Friday in Atlanta at 95. Keating had lived in Atlanta recently with her son, Dr. John Keating, since her health had begun to fail. “She was a special lady,” Greenville realtor Betsy Alexander said. “It is a sad day [...]

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