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'Twilight' Author Sued for Vampire Rip-Off

Posted Aug 19th 2009 9:22PM by TMZ Staff

Stephenie MeyerThe author of the "Twilight" series is being sued by a woman who claims the 4th installment is a rip-off of her work.

Jordan Scott claims in her lawsuit, filed today in federal court, that she began writing a novel "in the vampire genre" when she was just 15 -- back in 2003. The novel was published in 2006 and called "The Nocturne."

Scott claims the 4th installment of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series lifted her work. She says Meyer's book -- "Breaking Dawn" is a "significant literary departure from [her] early books..." She says it seems the book is "written by a teenager." Yes, Scott was a teenager when she wrote "The Nocturne."

Scott claims the two books "show striking, articulable and substantial similarities in the ... plot lines, themes, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, characters, sequence of events, ideas and other similarities."

TMZ published a story about the specific plot similarities. Click here to read.

Scott is asking for damages, and that the court impound the "Breaking Dawn" books that are being sold.

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Tags: Breaking Dawn, BreakingDawn, Jordan Scott, JordanScott, lawsuit, Stepenie Meyer, StepenieMeyer, The Nocturn, Twilight

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1. first

Posted at 9:36PM on Aug 19th 2009 by john

2. This girl is just jealous! Get over it!

Posted at 10:04PM on Aug 19th 2009 by ilovetwilight

3. balls

Posted at 9:39PM on Aug 19th 2009 by balls

4. Finally! Twilight and all the enjoy it should just all die.

Posted at 9:41PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Sara

5. OMG who has even heard of that book? Breaking Dawn is the one everyone is reading and spending money on. I just wish everyone would stop trying to make a quick buck!

Posted at 9:48PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Michelle C

6. TMZ wrote "Click here to read" Click where to read?

Posted at 9:46PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Bobo Frog

7. Yeah, click WHERE? You forgot to add a link. Proofread THEN publish, durr.

Posted at 9:50PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Team Jon

8. That's ridiculous, every freaking vampire novel will have the same sort of ideas, I mean yay for creativity and all but how many different story lines can you come up with for vampires?

So pretty much what this means is that every little romance novel that has some character or situation similarities to Jane Austen (the love/hate thing, etc) should be sued for ripping off another author.

The woman sueing (spelling??) obviously just wants a wee bit of fame, ten bucks says she read breaking dawn, then wrote her "nocturn" thing and claimed she wrote it years ago.

Truly pathetic. I hope this gets thrown out of court because of sheer ridiculousness (I know that's not a word but it fits).

Posted at 9:51PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Nikki

9. I think they should have a pit fight to determine whose is the original. That is the only way to know for sure.

Posted at 9:54PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Ryan

10. I didn't like any of the Twilight books but Breaking Dawn was REALLY bad! Why would anyone want to take credit for it!

Posted at 9:53PM on Aug 19th 2009 by hmmm

11. I don't even read the books, but I did read the legal papers. This has to be the most bogus lawsuit ever. The things that this high schooler is saying are copied are not even close.

Jordan Scott is a fraud at her very best.

Posted at 9:54PM on Aug 19th 2009 by tom baker

12. hopefully this would help stop the next movies from being made.

Posted at 9:53PM on Aug 19th 2009 by chris

13. I agree...Breaking Dawn was the worst one. So far fetched!!!I sure wouldn't want anyone to know I wrote something similar to it.

Posted at 9:59PM on Aug 19th 2009 by skybrea

14. When is Meyers going to write another book? She's been awfully quiet lately. Maybe then we can see if she's an authentic author or a plagiarist.

Posted at 9:58PM on Aug 19th 2009 by Truth Hurts

15. i agree!!!!!
WHERE DO YOU CLICK TO READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its SO stupid thats she is barely
claiming about this NOW!!!
is been HOW MANY YEARS!!!?!?!?

Posted at 10:01PM on Aug 19th 2009 by janet

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