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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 7773481" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>From Friday's lecture slides:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]105050[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><em>Ravenscroft vs Herbert [1980] RPC 193</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Non-literal infringement by James Herbert - background & prologue to The Spear were re-writing of The spear of Destiny’s narrative - no original research.</em></p><p><em>“an author is not entitled, under the guise of producing an original work, to reproduce arguments and illustrations of another author so as to appropriate to himself the literary labour of that author” </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Non-literal copying of Ravenscroft’s language, incidents and interpretation of events.</em></p><p><em>4% of the defendant’s work was copied from Ravenscroft, but for damages it was held to represent 15% of the value of the whole of the work.</em></p><p><em>In fact the basic inspiration – the idea - for the novel seems to have entirely come from Ravenscroft’s work of crypto-‘history’.</em></p><p></p><p>It's a fun case - the book has undead Himmler animated by Neo-Nazis in 1970s England - I bought 'The Spear' (excised version) but couldn't get into it. I should buy The Spear of Destiny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 7773481, member: 463"] From Friday's lecture slides: [ATTACH=CONFIG]105050[/ATTACH] [I]Ravenscroft vs Herbert [1980] RPC 193 Non-literal infringement by James Herbert - background & prologue to The Spear were re-writing of The spear of Destiny’s narrative - no original research. “an author is not entitled, under the guise of producing an original work, to reproduce arguments and illustrations of another author so as to appropriate to himself the literary labour of that author” Non-literal copying of Ravenscroft’s language, incidents and interpretation of events. 4% of the defendant’s work was copied from Ravenscroft, but for damages it was held to represent 15% of the value of the whole of the work. In fact the basic inspiration – the idea - for the novel seems to have entirely come from Ravenscroft’s work of crypto-‘history’.[/I] It's a fun case - the book has undead Himmler animated by Neo-Nazis in 1970s England - I bought 'The Spear' (excised version) but couldn't get into it. I should buy The Spear of Destiny. [/QUOTE]
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