Presiding judge says she’s troubled by similarities between ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and new book

September 24th, 2009 Actress MACKENZIE PHILLIPS hopes her shocking new memoir, HIGH ON ARRIVAL, makes incest a talking point in America. The troubled star reveals she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, the Mamas & the Papas star John Phillips, in the book, explaining that what started out as rape when she was a teenager became a perverse consensual act.

September 23rd, 2009 A woman trying to contest MICHAEL JACKSON's will has had her attempt turned down by a U.S. judge. Charlaine Buie maintains she had a relationship with the late singer and appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge on Tuesday (22Sep09) to object to Jackson's will, reports RadarOnline.com.

September 22nd, 2009 COLDPLAY are facing yet another plagiarism claim from a disgruntled singer, who alleges the band's new video is "awfully similar" to previous release. Just weeks after settling a copyright dispute with guitarist Joe Satriani over their single Viva La Vida, singer/songwriter Andy J.

September 20th, 2009 MICHAEL SHEEN partly based his TWILIGHT sequel vampire king character on the dastardly child catcher from CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. The Brit, who has mastered the voices of Tony Blair, David Frost and soccer icon Brian Clough for movies, admits he read Stephenie Meyer's books for clues about how his character, Arrow, should sound in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

September 11th, 2009 Jessica Seinfeld, author and wife of US TV star Jerry Seinfeld, can finally heave a sigh of relief as the after getting reprieve from a copyright infringement case against her which was filed by another author, named Missy Chase Lapine, who had alleged that Jessica had plagiarized from her recipe book for her own book which also dealt with more or less the same subject. Missy Chase Lapine's book, titled "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals" was published by the Running Press.

September 10th, 2009 A New York judge has dismissed a chef's cookbook plagiarism lawsuit against JERRY SEINFELD's wife - insisting there are no notable similarities between the two publications. Chef Missy Chase Lapine sued Seinfeld's wife Jessica in January (08), claiming Seinfeld's bestselling cookbook Deceptively Delicious is "brazenly plagiarised" from her own tome, The Sneaky Chef.

September 10th, 2009 NY judge: Seinfeld cookbook not an illegal copycatNEW YORK — A New York judge has tossed out a cookbook author's claim that comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife was a culinary copycat when she came out with one of her own. Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Thursday threw out a lawsuit brought against the Seinfeld couple by author Missy Chase Lapine.

August 21st, 2009 LONDON - Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has been accused of plagiarism by an American woman. Jordan Scott has alleged that the 2008 novel Breaking Dawn has a "striking and substantial similarity" to her 2006 fantasy The Nocturne.

July 24th, 2009 Author seeks court OK to publish Salinger spinoffNEW YORK — A Swedish author has asked a federal appeals court in New York to let him publish a book he claims is a parody of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Fredrik Colting was blocked by a federal judge earlier this month from publishing in the United States his novel "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye." Colting said in his appeal filed Thursday that the judge erred in concluding that his book infringed Salinger's copyright.

July 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - Veteran TV news anchor Rita Cosby's book on Anna Nicole Smith has been blasted by a federal judge, who said that her claims of the late model watching a video of her boyfriend having sex with lawyer Howard K. Stern were 'preposterous'.

July 1st, 2009 Judge blocks publication of Salinger spinoff bookNEW YORK — A federal judge has ruled that a Swedish author cannot publish in the United States a book he wrote that was advertised as a sequel to J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye." Judge Deborah Batts issued her ruling Wednesday after hearing arguments in a lawsuit brought by the 90-year-old Salinger against the publishers of "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye." The book was scheduled to be published in the United States this summer.

June 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Milk' actor Sean Penn's wife Robin Wright says that their marriage has survived their troubled patches because it is "laid on a strong foundation of love". She says that they have worked hard on their relationship, which is why they could over come troubled patches, including two aborted divorce attempts.

June 24th, 2009 Author acknowledges lifting Wiki materialNEW YORK — The author of a new book about the wisdom of free products on the Web has acknowledged taking some liberties in his own work. Chris Anderson, known for the influential business book "The Long Tail," said he was mistaken for using passages — without attribution — that closely resembled material from Wikipedia and other sources included in his latest release, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price." "This is entirely my own screwup, and will be corrected," Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote on his blog Wednesday.

May 31st, 2009 LONDON - Jerome David "JD" Salinger is in talks with his legal team regarding the publication of another author's unauthorised sequel to his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, who has been living in isolation in rural New Hampshire for more than half a century and is famous for his reclusive nature, turned to lawyers about the new book "60 Years Later: oming Through the Rye", penned by a Swedish-American debut novelist John David California.

May 12th, 2009 Judge authorizes $13M in Tribune employee bonusesWILMINGTON, Del. — A bankruptcy court judge has authorized Tribune Co.