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...Little, Brown and Company received a letter from Random House this morning, pointing out several passages in Kaavya Viswanathan's novel HOW OPAL MEHTA GOT KISSED, GOT WILD, and GOT A LIFE that they deem similar to passages in Megan McCafferty's novels SLOPPY FIRSTS and SECOND HELPINGS. We consider this a serious matter and we are investigating it immediately...
Publishing giant Random House is “certain” that a novel by Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 contains “literal copying” from its own author’s works, according to a letter obtained by The Crimson...
...characters already found in these works, we are certain that some literal copying actually occurred here," Min Jung Lee, the assistant general counsel of Random House, wrote in an April 22 letter to Carol Ross, the general counsel of Little, Brown, which released Viswanathan’s debut novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” this month...
...wrote that Viswanathan’s novel “contains passages that are identical or strikingly similar to passages found” in McCafferty’s two works. The Crimson first reported the similarities on its website early Sunday morning. In total, The Crimson has identified more than a dozen such passages...
Viswanathan worked with a book packaging company—17th Street Productions, which is owned by Alloy Entertainment—in the development of “Opal Mehta.” Alloy Entertainment and Viswanathan own the copyright to the novel, and Variety reported in February that Alloy Entertainment, along with Contrafilm, is slated to produce the film adaptation. The rights to the novel were purchased that month by DreamWorks...