INJUSTICE IN THE INDUSTRY, minorly..

[Emily]

After messaging this topic I realized how really unfair the industry or writing can be.
Any fan of the band Boys Like Girls would know that they are not only releasing a new album soon but have already released a single from that album, called Love Drunk.
After seeing the twice last summer I was pretty thrilled and promptly began listening to the new song and learning the lyrics etcetera etcetera.. Then, it came to my attention that the chorus of the song Love Drunk was almost exactly shared the tune of Somebody told Me by the Killers! Blasphamy I say, BLASPHAMY!!!
(Two Emily Points to whoever can give me the proper spelling of that forsaked word)
Anyone who has heard of either song should go compare them on youtube. It is HEARTBREAKING I say. heartbreaking. But I don't think it's such an injustice because writing songs is a hard thing to pursue.

ON THE OTHER HAND!
Many, many, MANY nerdfighters have read and or enjoyed the series of Twlight by Stephanie Meyer. Even I confess to have profusely liking them as when i read them. I'm sure many nerdfighters have also/and/or enjoyed/seen the series True Blood. It's very good, I agree.
I found out there was a book series behind the TV show so I immediately began reading them. As I delved deeper into the Sookie Stackhouse Series (that's what the books are called) I made a disgusting connection between the two series.

The plot of True Blood is a telepath (that is, mind reading) girl in northern Louisiana meets a vampire and falls in love with him because she cannot hear his thoughts. The author, Charlaine Harris, also includes Werewolves, covens of Vampires, and Shape Shifters (later in the series). The things she mentions about the Weres is that they have a high temperture, feel warm, and start were symptoms at puberty. She said that the Vampires who lived in Covens were more hostile whereas the ones who lived alone were more humane. She mentioned that certain groups of Shape Shifters had different eyes (goldenish) differen from the other shifters. Humans turn Vampire from a sequencee of being bitten and having their blood removed, replaced with some of the Vampire's, and changed over around a 2-3 day period. Sounding familiar?

The plot of Twilight is that a Vampire who is a telepath (that is, a mind reader) meets a girl in Washington whom he cannot read her thoughts, and therefore falls in love with her. The author, Stephanie Meyer, also includes Werewolves and covens (later on in the series). She says how Weres have very high tempertures and feel extremely warm, and all of her werewolves turned to such at some point of teenagehood. She said the vampires who lived in Covens were more humane whereas the ones who roamed in smaller groups or alone were more hostile. She told how the group of Vampires who drank animal blood had different eyes from all the other vampires; their eyes were golden. Humans turned Vampire from being bitten by Vampires, and changed over a 3 day period. SOUNDING FAMILIAR?

I'm sorry but it disgusts me how much she took from another book but changed it to be teeny bopper so she could target a more excitable audience. i know she says it started from a dream, which it probaby did, but no one can pretend that this is coincedince that she didn't at least get ideas from this book series.

It's just really sad that someone spent 3 months on a book and became famous for it when it wasn't even her original idea, whereas someone else spent years and years on books with similar ideas but more adult content, and was given very little appreciation in contrast, and only got more recent attention because her copier made the industry realized the audience wanted more Vampire stuff.
Really, people?

I ask the favor of anyone who reads this to read both series and just compare and be aware of all the under-the-table plagiarism that goes on today.

Sookie Stackhouse Series, by Charlaine Harris. True Blood. twilight, by Stephanie Meyer.