Showing posts with label plagiarism. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

J.K. Rowling gets sued for plagiarism....AGAIN!!!

Ok, this is getting ridiculous.  I can't even count how many times this has happened.  On the other hand she's sued plenty herself for the same thing.  Personally I never bought her story on how she came up with the idea.  eonline.com reports:

J.K Rowling has been tacked on as a defendant in a lawsuit filed against her U.K. publisher in 2004, which claims that the bestselling author plagiarized part of the fourth book in her über-successful Harry Potter series.


The suit alleges that, in writing Goblet of Fire, Rowling ripped off the 1987 children's book The Adventures of Willy the Wizard: No. 1 Livid Land by Adrian Jacobs, who died in 1997.

To which the embattled author says, "Hogwarts," er, "hogwash."

"I am saddened that yet another claim has been made that I have taken material from another source to write Harry," Rowling said in a statement released by her rep to Bloomberg Business Week.

"The fact is I had never heard of the author or the book before the first accusation by those connected to the author's estate in 2004; I have certainly never read the book."

I'm not buying it Rowling.  I bet you have a complete collection.  How about "The Legend of RAH and the Muggles" by Nancy Stouffer?  Ever read "The Worst Witch" by Jill Murphy?  Just saying I've seen a few similiarities myself.