The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday tossed a lower court’s order that a Columbus man stay away from a Marietta woman—the author of the oft-cited poem “The Dash”—and remove hundreds of posts about her from his website.
The poem urges people to make the most of their time between birth and death, which is represented by a dash on tombstones. Matthew Chan, whose website says its mission is to assist whose who receive what it calls copyright “extortion letters,” has complained that author Linda Ellis is too aggressive in her attempts to collect money from those who reprint her poem even once.
