![]() ![]() Kenyon, who is seeking damages and lost profits as well as an end to infringement, lays out a range of similarities in plot and character between the two series. ![]() Indeed, we expect that all of Ms Kenyon’s claims will be dismissed.” “Tellingly, the lawsuit failed to identify a single instance of actual copying or plagiarism by Cassie … There is little chance of anyone confusing Cassie’s young adult themes and orientation with the sometimes very adult storylines in Ms Kenyon’s books. In Clare’s first public response to the accusations, her lawyer John Cahill said: “Cassie was both surprised and disappointed that Ms Kenyon would file this baseless lawsuit, a decade after the debut of Cassie’s books … It alleges copyright and trademark infringement, and claims that “in writing The Mortal Instruments and the Shadowhunters Series knowingly and wilfully copied the Dark-Hunter Series and original elements therein to create a work or works substantially similar to and derivative of the Dark-Hunter Series”. ![]() Kenyon’s case, filed last week, claims that when her Dark-Hunter books are compared to Clare’s Shadowhunter series, “in many respects, the elements are virtually identical”. ![]()
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