📚 Hot, sexy, dangerous boys cannot be copyrighted
A judge in a plagiarism case between two YA romantasy authors found no plagiarism occurred, noting similarities were typical of the genre. The judge added that “hot, sexy, dangerous boys” cannot be copyrighted. In other news, House Resolution 7661, also known as the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, was passed forward to the full House of Representatives with recommendation. HR 7661 would modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by prohibiting the use of funds to promote literature with sexually oriented material to children under 18. The bill would ban any sexually oriented materials, including books about gender dysphoria or transgenderism, in public schools.
- The judge in a plagiarism case between two YA romantasy authors has found that no plagiarism occurred.
- The judge notes that the novels are only similar in the ways that all young adult romantasy fiction novels are similar to each other.
- “hot, sexy, dangerous boys central to virtually all young adult romance novels cannot be copyrighted.”
📚 BookAddict’s Take: If you write YA romantasy, you can breathe a sigh of relief that the tropes of the genre are safe from copyright claims; however, all authors should be concerned about the implications of HR 7661 and its potential impact on access to literature.
Source: Book Riot |
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