Judge Temporarily Blocks Publication Of Catcher ‘Sequel’

A federal judge yesterday “granted a 10-day temporary restraining order forbidding publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that contains a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield while she considers arguments in a copyright-infringement case filed by [J.D.] Salinger. … ‘It does seem to me that Holden Caulfield is quite delineated by words, that is a portrait by words,’ Judge Batts told the lawyers. ‘It would seem that Holden Caulfield is copyrighted.'”