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April 30, 2006
The KV Saga: Adult involvement
According to Random House, the number of lifted passages was up from 13 to 45. However, someone's pointed out that KV was not the sole copyright owner of Opal Mehta. That was shared with 17th Street Productions/Alloy Entertainment who are book "packagers" and had been implicated in a wrongful copying case before. Another sees Little, Brown's $500,000 handouts as less of an advance, and more of a publicity stunt to exploit KV's youth and Harvard connections while yet another columnist suggests that LB fully deserved all it got. "Many parties had their fingers in this pie, and while Viswanathan is the public scapegoat, behind her are publishing professionals who are either complicit or ignorant — neither prospect appealing."
Posted by Ahmad Saidullah at April 30, 2006 09:42 AM
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