Author Harper Lee Sues Her Hometown Museum In Trademark Case

Author Harper Lee has filed a lawsuit against a museum in her home town of Monroeville, Alabama, the town where she grow up and also the town whose courthouse was used as the model for the film version of her prize-winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”  The lawsuit alleges the museum has taken advantage of the author’s ill health and perceived inability to police her brand in order to exploit trademarks associated with her work. Much of the museum’s display concerns the author and items associated with the novel and film, but an attorney for the museum, rejecting the plaintiff s claims as false and without merit, noted the museum has been in operation for 25 years and that the author herself has been a visitor.