‘BREAKING DAWN’ PLAGIARISM SUIT AGAINST STEPHENIE MEYER DISMISSED
EW.com is bringing us fantastic news this morning. A judge has dismissed the plagiarism case against Stephenie Meyer for Breaking Dawn, saying “characters in the two works are vastly different”. Read more below:
A judge of the United States District Court has dismissed author Jordan Scott’s claim that Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer plagiarized small portions of her fourth book, Breaking Dawn, from Scott’s vampire novel The Nocturne.In a statement, Meyer’s publisher, Hachette Book Group, says, “In his ruling, [Judge Otis D. Wright II] stated that the two works have little in common and that the ‘characters in the two works are vastly different.’ The decision admonishes Scott for ‘the deceptive presentation of the alleged similarities’ and notes that she ‘has twice manipulated aspects of the subject works in order to create the appearance of similarity.’ While an attempt to ride on someone else’s success may not be surprising, it is encouraging that the courts and the public are not so easily misled.
This judgment confirms what we have known all along — Breaking Dawn is a wholly original work by Stephenie Meyer and this was a frivolous lawsuit brought for the purposes of publicizing the plaintiff’s personal publishing aspirations. Hachette Book Group and Stephenie Meyer are pleased to be able to put this case behind us.â€
See more at EW here.
(Thanks Marichelle!)
Nice to see Stephenie vindicated in court, that was such an obviously fake lawsuit. I can’t believe anyone would have believed any of it for a second.
What do you think of what the judge had to say?
