Acclaimed screenwriter and director Woody Allen directed Midnight in Paris, a 2011 film that is set in Paris, France. In the movie, one of the characters states, “The past is not dead.
Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner, and he was right.” In fact, William Faulkner, a well-known real-life author, wrote a fictional book that was published in 1950 called Requiem for a Nun in which one of the characters states: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” When the 2011 film was released, the holder of the copyright in Faulkner’s book sued the film studio, alleging copyright infringement. What resulted?