Plagiarism suit against Stephenie Meyer dropped
A copyright-infringement lawsuit against fantasy author Stephenie Meyer alleging plagiarism has been dismissed, according to a statement from Meyer’s publisher.
Back in August a plagiarism suit was filed over her fourth and final book in the saga, Breaking Dawn. The suit, filed by a 21-year-old musician/author named Jordan Scott, demanded that Meyer’s publisher, Hachette Book Group, cease and desist all printings of the Breaking Dawn novel, as contents of the book were allegedly copied from a novel Scott wrote when she was 15-16, entitled, Nocturne.
The case and charges were officially dismissed after the judge said Scott manipulated aspects of the “subject works in order to create the appearance of similarity.”
“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.” read the statement from the Hachette Book Group.
Earlier this year, Meyer was hit with a plagiarism lawsuit from her former college roommate Heidi Stanton, who claimed the hit vampire books were based on a short story she wrote while both women studied at Brigham Young University, Utah.
Stephenie Meyer was born on the 24th of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of six children. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen (+ ie). Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly).
Posted: December 12th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Stephenie Meyer
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