How Original Is "Twilight"?

How original is "Twilight"? I ask because of all the plagiarism claims that have surfaced. The most notable are claims regarding the fourth book in Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" installment titled "Breaking Dawn" proving to be a rip off of Jordan Scott's preexisting copyrighted book "The Nocturne."

Previously, the "Twilight" perfume was shown to be a complete rip-off of Nina Ricci's well established fragrance. Therefore, the question is, just how much of this "Twilight" franchise is real and not stolen from someone else's copyrights. It's forming a pattern illustrating something is very wrong.

A lawyer tried to defend Meyer's conduct on the MTV website, regarding stealing the preexisting copyrighted book, by incredulously stating, some items in Scott's book are not uncommon.

Stephanie Meyer

I don't know about you, but a book featuring a woman pregnant with a vampire's seed, that is making her ill, with the baby having to be cut out of the womb and numerous lines of text being lifted from said book verbatim, among other things, is distinct and substantial, as it forms the basis for the work.

Furthermore, as a writer of any caliber, one should be ashamed to admit stealing anything from anyone, then looking for loopholes in Copyright Law to hide behind, as it states you are a fraud.

The internet is a great place, but is has exposed a lot of writers, including myself, to unwanted plagiarism and copyright infringement, by Hollywood stars and so-called writers, hiding behind their computers, while stealing from hardworking people. Who could respect such thievery, as it is ugly and so uncalled for.

Stephanie Meyer Plagiarized Book

Stephanie Meyer

"Twilight" author Stephanie Meyer, has plagiarized the preexisting, copyrighted book "The Nocturne" by indie writer, Jordan Scott, for her later released, best-selling tome, "Breaking Dawn." It is the fourth book in the "Twilight" series.

Megan Fox and "Twilight" Actor Robert Pattinson at the Teen Choice Awards

She has been sued by a law firm representing Scott, who wrote her book as a teenager, copyrighted it, published excerpts of it on her website, then released it for sale.

Lawyers for Scott prepared a 15-page document that was released to the internet, outlining the similarities. I read the document and agree, there are distinct and substantial similarities that cannot be classified as anything else other than copyright infringement.

For example, Scott's preexisting book "The Nocturne" has a storyline of a woman getting pregnant for a vampire and the child in her womb making her ill. It also contains a post wedding sex scene on the beach. Two years later, Stephanie Meyer's book contains the exact same things. There are other detailed similarities as well.

Meyer clearly read and plagiarized Scott's preexisting book. There are too many distinct duplications for it to be a coincidence. Sometimes authors get writer's block and use other people's work to solve the problem. Meyer, like so many other Hollywood infringers, didn't need the money, but wanted all the glory, cash and credit.

'Twilight' Author Accused of Biting Vampire Story

Posted Aug 4th 2009 10:00AM by TMZ Staff - ...A woman named Jordan Scott fired off a cease and desist letter to the publisher of "Breaking Dawn" -- the fourth book in the series -- claiming the Twilight tale contains a "striking and substantial similarity" to Scott's book, "The Nocturne."

In her extremely detailed letter, Scott claims her book was published in 2006 -- two years before "Breaking Dawn" -- and it's no coincidence that many of the scenes are almost identical. Such as...

-- Both books contain a post-wedding sex scene
-- Both books contain a scene about a woman who's sick because she's carrying a child with "evil powers"
-- Both books contain a scene with the death of the main character's wife

And according to Scott, the dialogue in all of these scenes -- and more -- is extremely similar...

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