Court Rules Tracy Wolff Did Not Plagiarize Crave Series
A judge in the Southern District of New York ruled that Tracy Wolff did not plagiarize her YA fantasy series Crave, according to a report that first appeared in Publishers Lunch.
The ruling concludes a multi-year lawsuit brought against Wolff by writer Lynne Freeman, alleging the series was "substantially similar" to one of her unpublished manuscripts. Freeman also named her and Wolff's mutual agent Emily Sylvan Kim, Crave publisher Entangled Books, distributor Macmillan, and Universal City Studios—which bought film rights to the first installment in the series—in the suit.
In the ruling, Judge Colleen McMahon wrote that "Freeman’s novel and Wolff’s Crave novels are indeed similar, but only in the ways that all young adult romantasy fiction novels are similar to each other."
The court added that "hot, sexy, dangerous boys—central to virtually all young adult romance novels—cannot be copyrighted."
