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Hatchette Books
Of course, you already knew the lawsuit filed against Twilight author Stephenie Meyer by Jordan Scott for Breaking Dawn was ridiculous.
Apparently, Judge Otis D. Wright II of the United States District Court agrees.
In a recent statement issued to Twilight Lexicon by Breaking Dawn publishing group Hatchette Books, information about the status (or finality, rather) of the case was issued.
The Honorable Otis D. Wright II of the United States District Court has ruled in favor of Stephenie Meyer and Hachette Book Group and has dismissed with prejudice Jordan Scott’s claim of copyright infringement.
In his ruling, Judge Wright 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.”
You can read the rest here.
The case was filed, initially, as copyright infringement claim with allegations that Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn mimicked Jordan Scott's book. The filing asserted that the characters and ideas were drawn by Meyer from Scott's story, but the ruling in the matter certainly goes to show that the claims did not hold up in the courts.
Good to know, eh? Especially since the progress on bringing Breaking Dawn to the big screen seems to be moving along . . . Note that dismissals with prejudice such as this are appealable in most situations, but hopefully the matter has been resolved once and for all.
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duh!
Actually, dismissed with prejudice means it's DONE!
When a case is dismissed for good reason and the plaintiff is barred from bringing an action on the same claim.
lectlaw.com/def/d061.htm
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Well, we all knew that it was malarkey anyway. She just did this to ride on Stephenie's coat tails and try to popularize her book herself. I read a few pages on Amazon, and it's hard to read. I didn't like it at all. I guess she got her fifteen minutes though.
And I'm glad it was dismissed with prejudice, which means she can't bring it up to court ever again. The judge knew she was full of bull.
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