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1995, Northwestern journalism student Luke Seemann launched The
Holden Server, a Web site that displayed random quotations from J.D.
Salinger's classic book The Catcher In the Rye. He was forced
to take the site down after Salinger's literary agent wrote him a cease-and-desist
letter, claiming the site was a "flagrant" copyright violation. Salinger
has tried to shut down other Web sites dedicated to The Catcher In the
Rye such as the Catcher
In the Rye Homepage, a site based in the Netherlands which has a total
of three quotes from the book.
Obviously, these cases does not establish any legal precedent
regarding reprinting short excerpts of another person's work on a Web
page. They do illustrate the power of the well-funded copyright-hol |
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over "the little guy," however, and