Faulkner Estate Settles Lawsuit

William Faulkner’s estate recently settled a copyright lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp. and The Washington Post Co.  See here for a prior posting on this case.

The estate sued those parties over the following quote in an independence day ad: “We must be free; not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”  Faulkner’s estate claimed that this same quote, with different punctuation, was the conclusion to Faulkner’s essay that criticized the South’s response to school integration.

District Judge Henry T. Wingate dismissed the lawsuit in December and terms of the settlement are sealed. 

See Faulkner Estate Settles Lawsuit Over Newspaper Ad, 10TV.com, Jan. 10, 2013. 

Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.