Once on the computer sued for alleged plagiarism

In 1993, Scott French began an interesting project. He earned $ 40,000 and set about creating a computer whose main function was to review the author's style novelist Jacqueline Susann. It took eight years, after which the French, with all the necessary data used to create a novel machine, copying the style of Suzanne.



As a result, there was a book published under the title "Only once," a love story, written almost entirely computer Macintosh IIcx, also known as «Hel». The novel received mixed reviews, but given the fact that the author had a car, the result can be considered positive.

After it was sold for 35 000 copies of the book, Jacqueline Susann sued Scott French's accused of plagiarism. It was very controversial, because in fact, the book was not plagiarism per se. The only thing French admitted blunders - «Hel» fully simulated recognizable style of the writer.

Suzanne French and eventually settled the matter out of court, as copyright laws at that time still did not consider such a situation, and the court simply had no idea about what decision to make in regard to the book written by a computer.

via factroom.ru