Legal Opinion

Jerome D. Salinger A/K/A J.D. Salinger v. Random House, Inc. And Ian Hamilton

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided May 4, 1987No. 657, Docket 86-7957PublishedCited by 105 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the issue whether the biographer of a renowned author has made “fair use” of his subject’s unpublished letters. The issue arises on an expedited appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pierre N. Leval, Judge) denying a preliminary injunction sought by the well-known writer, J.D. Salinger, against Ian Hamilton and Random House, Inc., the author and publisher, respectively, of a book about Salinger and his writings. For reasons that follow, we conclude that a preliminary injunction should be issued.

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