Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin
Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001) was decided by the United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (Alabama, Florida, and Georgia) against the owner of Gone With the Wind, vacating an injunction prohibiting the publisher of The Wind Done Gone[?] from distributing the book This case stands for the principle that the creation and publication of a carefully-written parody novel in the United States counts as fair use. As such, it upholds the previous supreme court decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music which ruled that 2 Live Crew's unlicensed use of the bass line from Roy Orbison's song "Oh, Pretty Woman" constituted fair use under copyright law and extends that principle from songs to novels and is binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit.
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