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Harper Lee sues agent over To Kill a Mockingbird copyright
Guardian UK ^
| May 4, 2013
| David Batty
Posted on 05/04/2013 1:41:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
To Kill a Mockingbird - Oh that’s the book about the Duke rape case right?
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:48:55 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:51:47 PM PDT
by
ZULU
((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/))
To: vette6387
gasp
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:53:08 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: ConservativeStatement
Personally, I think Truman Capote wrote it.
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:53:43 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:56:05 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: ConservativeStatement
My son, a big ornithology buff, had to read
To Kill a Mockingbird in seventh grade.
He was extremely disappointed by what, from his point of view, amounted to a misrepresentation or case of bait and switch.
Lucky for him the teacher didn't follow up with Of Mice and Men.
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:57:12 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: ConservativeStatement
Too efffing bad.
Copyright was meant to last fourteen years. Extendable once.
How about if the builders of every bridge and every road get tolls in perpetuity?
Lets put this thing in the courts and see if both of them can’t come out bankrupt.
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:58:23 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: billorites
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posted on
05/04/2013 1:59:49 PM PDT
by
rabidralph
(http://www.cafepress.com/westernwis)
To: Perdogg
She has written one book.
She almost never gives interviews or talks to anyone in the press. She's sort of ben hiding for 50 years. Hiding from what?
Her only other major accomplishment is helping Capote with research for "In Cold Blood".
She and Capote were lifelong friends.
I think it is bizarre that her one and only attempt at writing just happened to sell 30 million copies. For me, this is just amusing speculation, kind of like wondering if the works of Shakespeare were written by Shakespeare or by someone else.
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:01:27 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:02:03 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: ClearCase_guy
Personally, I think Truman Capote wrote it. And I understand Harper Lee really wrote "In Cold Blood".
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:02:55 PM PDT
by
0.E.O
To: ConservativeStatement
Hard to tell when you only hear a single side of the story, however ‘senior fraud’ is all too common. It would be interesting to learn what benefit she received from transferring her rights for no money (if true). Given her sole book’s firm place in the literary field, the old-time latin maxim of ‘qui bono’ (who benefits) seems to become important.
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
SES1066
(Government is NOT the reason for my existence but it is the road to our ruin!)
To: Perdogg
Truman Capote and Harper Lee were very close.
That she never capitalized on the book's success with another novel has long fueled speculation that it was not her production.
Capote, as good a friend as he was of Lee, would have been incapable of not taking credit had he, in fact, been the author. He drank enough so that he would have let the truth slip sooner or later, somewhere or other.
I take her at her word that the success floored her. That would be an awful thing to feel one had to equal or repeat.
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:04:21 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: ConservativeStatement
I do have a soft spot for Jem and Scout. Best book I was ever forced to read in Mrs. Sydney’s 8th grade English at St. Isidore’s.
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:05:30 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: ConservativeStatement
What a scoundrel! You don’t take advantage of elderly women like that.
To: MrEdd
You really think living authors shouldn’t receive royalties from continuing sales of their work?
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:06:45 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:08:49 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: ConservativeStatement
What an amazingly conservative novel she wrote. I read it every year with my juniors and I love pointing out all of the conservative elements!
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posted on
05/04/2013 2:08:53 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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