Showing posts with label nonfictional historical work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nonfictional historical work. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case; The Guardian, October 25, 2022

, The Guardian; Descendant of Doctor Zhivago author loses copyright court case

"A descendant of the Doctor Zhivago author, Boris Pasternak, has lost a claim for copyright infringement against the writer of a novel about the publication of the Russian epic.

Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott’s work of historical fiction, The Secrets We Kept (TSWK), copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of her great uncle’s lover Olga Ivinskaya."