Posts on ‘January 29th, 2010’

Valerie S in Houston, TX (a legal secretary), wrote with this comment:
“If Salinger’s real reasons for not wanting to sell the film rights were something like his daughter indicated (it was very painful to him because it was like revealing a part of his private self), it would seem to be moot now. 2046 is [...]

J.D. Salinger is dead. Sorry to break this to you. I loved “Catcher in the Rye”, but he’s gone and — well, on to business.
So what happens to the copyright in this book, and other JDS works now that he’s gone (and what are the chances that a studio exec makes his mark by getting [...]