NP - Faulkner estate claims that quoting his novels in films is both a trademark and copyright infringement

[David Morris]

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/27/faulkner-estate-claims-that-qu.html

A reader writes, "A character in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris
quoted nine words from William Faulkner, with attribution. Faulkner
Literary Rights LLC has responded a year later with a lawsuit alleging
copyright infringement and attempts to deceive viewers into thinking
Requiem for a Nun is a game for the PS3. Or something." The suit's
major claims seem to turn on trademark (though there are copyright
claims in there, too): the Faulkner estate claims that a movie that
quotes Faulkner and has a character who meets various historical
people (including Faulkner) "is likely to cause confusion, to cause
mistake, and/or to deceive the infringing film's viewers as to a
perceived affiliation, connection or association between William
Faulkner and his works, on the one hand, and Sony, on the other hand."