In 2008, rights to Salinger's works were placed in what trust?

In 2008, rights to Salinger's works were placed in the JD Salinger Literary Trust.

The trust became significant because Salinger was famously protective of his fiction and repeatedly rejected proposals to adapt The Catcher in the Rye for film, television, or the stage. At the time the rights were transferred, Salinger was reportedly the trust's sole trustee.

The arrangement did not mean that a movie adaptation was suddenly approved. Salinger continued to control licensing decisions, and after his death in 2010, his literary agent declined to identify the trust's current trustees. His long resistance to adaptations is one reason the novel has remained primarily a literary, rather than cinematic, phenomenon.

A common mix-up is to confuse this trust with a publisher or with a fictional organization from the novel. “Little, Brown and Company” published the book; the JD Salinger Literary Trust concerns control of the author's intellectual-property rights.