Copyright tempest over `The Wind Done Gone' is outrageous - - BY DAN GILLMOR, Mercury News : In the war raging over ``intellectual property,'' the news from the front hasn't been encouraging, as corporate interests slaughter the public good in case after case. But a lawsuit involving the work of a famous American author could help put at least one issue in front of a public that remains remarkably oblivious. On Friday, a federal judge blocked the publishing of a novel called ``The Wind Done Gone'' -- a retelling of the 1936 saga ``Gone With the Wind'' from the perspective of a slave, a half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara. The estate of Margaret Mitchell, the ``Gone With the Wind'' author, had sued on the grounds that the book violated copyright protections.