Re: OT: Plagiarism

In article <w1OMf.96$UY4.82@xxxxxxxx>,
John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyway, I mentioned "Peter Pan" only as a general illustration of the
fiction-from-fiction case, and one that, by coincidence, I've just been
researching. I don't recognize the Niven work in question, unless it's
the one set in a distant future where Earth has been moved to orbit
Uranus (don't recall the title), which resembles "Peter Pan" very
little. "The DaVinci Code", on the other hand, names names. If HBHG is a
novel (it sure ain't history), then "Code" is probably a plagiarism
under law.

On the other hand, given the material they are delaing with, one
would expect a number of the names named to be Biblical, and surely
those are public domain by now. (Mind you, I haven't read either
work and ahve no intention of doing so as there'sa lot of other
books I'd like to read that I haven't gotten to yet.)

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Hal Heydt
Albany, CA

My dime, my opinions.
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