Stephenie Meyer Vindicated: Lawsuit Dismissed!
By Twilight_News | 3 December 2009
A few months back we covered the story of Jordan Scott (aspiring singer,songwriter, screen writer, model, novelist, actress) who claimed that Stephenie Meyer plagiarized Breaking Dawn from Jordan Scott’s novel The Nocturne. We posted a case by case analysis as to how (aside from the obvious fact that the texts bore little resemblance to each other) that this was impossible based on copyright dates and other factors.
This was the second story regarding plagiarism in 2009. The first story about Stephenie plagiarizing a college roommate’s story was an Internet hoax completely without merit.
Well it looks like a judge agrees as to what we thought all along about Jordan Scott’s claim. Hachette Books, the parent company of Little Brown that publishes the Twilight Saga novels, released this statement:
“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.”
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.”
By Twilight_News | 3 December 2009
A few months back we covered the story of Jordan Scott (aspiring singer,songwriter, screen writer, model, novelist, actress) who claimed that Stephenie Meyer plagiarized Breaking Dawn from Jordan Scott’s novel The Nocturne. We posted a case by case analysis as to how (aside from the obvious fact that the texts bore little resemblance to each other) that this was impossible based on copyright dates and other factors.
This was the second story regarding plagiarism in 2009. The first story about Stephenie plagiarizing a college roommate’s story was an Internet hoax completely without merit.
Well it looks like a judge agrees as to what we thought all along about Jordan Scott’s claim. Hachette Books, the parent company of Little Brown that publishes the Twilight Saga novels, released this statement:
“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.”
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.”
YOU KNOW YOUR OBSESSED WITH TWILIGHT WHEN:
1.You see a silver Volvo flying down the street and yell, "Edward come back!"
2.You ask your boyfriend to rub ice on your lips before he kisses you.
3.You walk around thinking,'I know what you
are' encase Edward is nearby.
4.You approach a wolf without taking precaution.
5.You put the name on your Myspace as, Mrs.Cullen.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
6.When you are reading this article!
lol! I hope you all enjoyed! Please comment and rate. TEAM EDWARD!!!
1.You see a silver Volvo flying down the street and yell, "Edward come back!"
2.You ask your boyfriend to rub ice on your lips before he kisses you.
3.You walk around thinking,'I know what you
are' encase Edward is nearby.
4.You approach a wolf without taking precaution.
5.You put the name on your Myspace as, Mrs.Cullen.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
6.When you are reading this article!
lol! I hope you all enjoyed! Please comment and rate. TEAM EDWARD!!!
you promised me that
every time we touch
you will never release your hold
your hold on to me
your hold on to reality
you promised me that
no matter what happens
you will comfort my aura
my aura of my stress
my aura of my mind
you promised me that
my feelings for you
would never change
never change from love
never change from us
you promised me that
nothing would ever
be serious in life
that life was a game
but that I was the dice
you promised me that
though we come from seperate worlds
no one could hold us back
hold us back from fate
hold us back from destiny
And as I look around the room
I realise
that all of us
in our own two intertwined minds
are Inseperable.
every time we touch
you will never release your hold
your hold on to me
your hold on to reality
you promised me that
no matter what happens
you will comfort my aura
my aura of my stress
my aura of my mind
you promised me that
my feelings for you
would never change
never change from love
never change from us
you promised me that
nothing would ever
be serious in life
that life was a game
but that I was the dice
you promised me that
though we come from seperate worlds
no one could hold us back
hold us back from fate
hold us back from destiny
And as I look around the room
I realise
that all of us
in our own two intertwined minds
are Inseperable.
On Italy: "Italy was a dream. Very surreal. I think everyone there, no matter who it was, Rob Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, [director] Chris Weitz or anyone else would say that it was an experience that they may never go through again. The hospitality of the whole thing, the way they treated us, the whole setting was so magnificent."
On Rob: "Rob, I feel sorry for him a little bit. I feel for him, because he’s like a paparazzi fugitive right now. He can’t leave his house. He’s the most photographed person in the world."
Transformation
When the transformation begins,
the heat flows through your body.
The wind around you,
turns to mist.
Suddenly your on all fours,
racing through the forest.
Your russet brown fur,
swirls in the wind.
Your like a blur,
like a brown line has been sketched into the forest.
Then you hear the voices of your pack,
calling you to hunt.
Listen while the wind screams past you,
and your packs mind turns into one.
you stalk your prey together,
till they see you and you act as one,
and they have no chance of escape.
You feast on your meal,
cleaning your bloody claws.
Then the call of the human world,
reminds you to go home.
While the change ends,
but same as the beginning.
The werewolf you were,
is now inside of you
When the transformation begins,
the heat flows through your body.
The wind around you,
turns to mist.
Suddenly your on all fours,
racing through the forest.
Your russet brown fur,
swirls in the wind.
Your like a blur,
like a brown line has been sketched into the forest.
Then you hear the voices of your pack,
calling you to hunt.
Listen while the wind screams past you,
and your packs mind turns into one.
you stalk your prey together,
till they see you and you act as one,
and they have no chance of escape.
You feast on your meal,
cleaning your bloody claws.
Then the call of the human world,
reminds you to go home.
While the change ends,
but same as the beginning.
The werewolf you were,
is now inside of you