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Old 21st April 2008, 03:43 AM   #23 (permalink)
Teresa Edgerton
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Re: dear JK...

I am absolutely behind her in principle, and the fact that she is richer than many small countries really has nothing to do with defending her rights.

And I have to say, if she did win this one, it could benefit many authors who don't have such deep pockets. Not that I think that she cares about benefits to other authors. That doesn't seem to be her style. But I don't think she will win.

However, when it comes to this part of what you said, Urlik:

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she either blatantly or subconsciously borrowed from a lot of sources that she has never really acknowledged
I can't help but think of this:

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But her lawyers call the lexicon a “rip-off” that lifts 2,034 of its 2,437 entries straight from her work. “These things have no existence except in my words, so he has taken my creation,” she said.
Because I, too, find her writing very derivative, and I don't know if I believe that there 2,034 original ideas in her books.

I do think that she believes it, though.
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