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Salinger copyright case appealed

An appeal against the banning of a book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye has been given the go-ahead.

In July, a judge in Manhattan's federal court blocked the US publication of 60 Years Later: Coming Through The Rye by Swedish novelist Fredrik Colting.

On Friday, an appeals court sent the case back to the federal court.

But in its ruling, the appeals court made it clear it expected Salinger's trust to prevail.
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