To Kill a Mockingbird - Oh that’s the book about the Duke rape case right?
Interesting
Personally, I think Truman Capote wrote it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What a scoundrel! You don’t take advantage of elderly women like that.
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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Good grief! Where was her personal Atticus?
This smacks of elder abuse.
I don’t know whether this will end up being a jury trial or not, but if it were and I was on it—Samuel Pinkus would need to be prepared to part with a huge quantity of his money (both existing and future earnings), I can’t stand people who take unfair advantage of other people and I absolutely despise people who take advantage of the elderly and infirm. What a creep!
I saw the movie when I was very young — maybe eight or so. I did not like the troublemakers and just naturally took the side of the locals against the migrants. I refused to read the book when it was assigned in high school. I think I read Last of the Mohicans instead. James Fenimore Cooper — now there is a good guy.
In many states, taking advantage of the elderly for financial gain is a pretty nasty felony...
I remember an episode of “Get Smart” that was a parody of “The Maltese Falcon.” Max was trying to locate the “Tequila Mockingbird.”
She didn’t Scout her literary agent too well
“The 87-year-old says she has no memory of agreeing to relinquish her rights or signing the agreement that cements the purported transfer.”
I’m sure she has no memory of writing the book either, since she didn’t
NOTICE TO READERS: You can find a copy in the White Guilt Lit & Vid section of your local bookstore.
So we are to believe that those two were pals, and that Harper did a lot of research for Truman, for which he didn’t give her credit, as she later complained, but that Truman had absolutely nothing to do with Harper’s work? Oh, OK.