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The appellate panel found that each republication of an image “may constitute a new personal injury” with a new deadline and cited the image’s appearance on a 30th anniversary reissue of “Nevermind” in 2021.

But a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed that decision, finding that “each republication” of an image “may constitute a new personal injury.”

But Mr Justice Jay said the advert did not clear the legal bar for an injunction preventing its republication because it did not make serious allegations about Mr Cooper's personal character.

In a forward written for the 1965 republication of Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote: "As for any inner meaning or 'message,' it has in the intention of the author none."

There is no direct connection between the book’s republication and the wave of educational gag orders around race and racism.