Legal Opinion
Suntrust Bank, as Trustee of the Stephen Mitchell Trusts F.B.O. Eugene Muse Mitchell and Joseph Reynolds Mitchell v. Houghton Mifflin Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 10, 2001No. 01-12200PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1259BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this opinion, we decide whether publication of The Wind Done Gone (“TWDG ”), a fictional work admittedly based on Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (“GWTW”), should be enjoined from publication based on alleged copyright violations. The district court granted a preliminary injunction against publication of TWDG because it found that Plaintiff-Ap-pellee Suntrust Bank (“Suntrust”) met the four-part test governing preliminary injunctions. We VACATE the injunction and REMAND for consideration of the remaining claims.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Procedural History
Suntrust is the…
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