Kaye Cee
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Humor : I'm glad I had people that I can talk about fictional characters as if they were real, and still think I'm sane.
Registration date : 2009-01-23
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Subject: The News and updates about Stephenie Meyer Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:39 pm |
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"Twilight" author sued for copyright infringement
LOS ANGELES - A woman who wrote an obscure vampire book as a teenager has sued "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer, accusing her of stealing ideas from the work for the fourth book in her vampire series, "Breaking Dawn."
Meyer's publisher responded that the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in California, is a meritless claim meant to further the career of the aspiring screenwriter making the complaint.
Jordan Scott's lawsuit accuses Meyer of copyright infringement and argues that, as Scott wrote her vampire novel "The Nocturne," she posted passages online, and that Meyer stole ideas from Scott's work for her own book.
"The Nocturne" and "Breaking Dawn," which was published in 2008, show similarities in language, plot lines, characters and other points, Scott's lawsuit stated. For instance, the lawsuit said both books contain a wedding passage and an after-wedding scene of sex on the beach.
Hachette Book Group, Meyer's publisher, said the "alleged similarities" are "wholly lacking in substance," and Meyer based "Breaking Dawn" on an earlier, unpublished sequel to "Twilight" that she wrote.
Hachette called the suit a "publicity stunt to further Ms. Scott's career," and said it expected the court would dismiss it.
Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" is the fourth book in the "Twilight" series, which has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide and become the basis of a Hollywood movie series.
The first film, "Twilight," earned more than $380 million at worldwide box offices and the second, "New Moon," hits theaters in November. The books and movies are about a girl named Bella Swan, who has a star-crossed love affair with dangerous but handsome vampire Edward Cullen.
Scott's book "The Nocturne," which she started writing at age 15 in 2003, had an initial printing of 5,000 books and is about to go into a second printing, according to her lawsuit.
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gemini20
Book Collector
Humor : i want n0body, n0b0dy but Tiu! *clap clap*
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Subject: Re: The News and updates about Stephenie Meyer Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:31 pm |
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Me gan0oo0n?!! naku ah.. kung kelan malapit na ung New Moon eh ngay0n pah lumalabas mga ganyang issue.. hmmmmm
ah basta, the best pa din ang lola Stephenie!
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Kaye Cee
Assistant Librarian
Humor : I'm glad I had people that I can talk about fictional characters as if they were real, and still think I'm sane.
Registration date : 2009-01-23
Points : 10164
Reputation : 45
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Subject: Re: The News and updates about Stephenie Meyer Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:49 pm |
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- gemini20 wrote:
- Me gan0oo0n?!!
naku ah.. kung kelan malapit na ung New Moon eh ngay0n pah lumalabas mga ganyang issue.. hmmmmm
ah basta, the best pa din ang lola Stephenie! oo sis... kahit nung kainitan nung kay Dan Brown na Da Vinci, ganito rin... wala naman nangyari...
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lyn
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Registration date : 2009-01-24
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Subject: Re: The News and updates about Stephenie Meyer Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:06 am |
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ay may demandahan portion? pero mukhang wala ding mangyayari dyan kasi parang wala pa namang nakakasuhan for plagiarism o kung ano mang ek-ek. yung sa HP na lang wala din namang nangyari sa case against JK Rowling kasi may similarities yung HP sa The Books of Magic..
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Subject: Re: The News and updates about Stephenie Meyer Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:01 pm |
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maaaan.. check out the full body pix released by summit..ang ganda. badtrip si marcus apakapanget!!!hindi mukhang vampire!!mukhang adik lang sa kanto!!
pero ganda.lupit ni caius aro at alec. ganda ni dakota..
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