A copyright infringement lawsuit filed against THE ART OF FIELDING author Chad Harbach by Charles Green has been dismissed. Green’s suit, filed last year, claimed Harbach pilfered portions of his unpublished novel BUCKY’S 9TH. But in a 13-page order, Southern District of New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that any similarities between the two novels “were trivial details…not copyrightable abstract ideas, or, when understood in context, not actually similar.” While “both works are about a struggling Division III baseball college team, and both works track the baseball team’s changed fortunes after the arrival of a new player…that is the […]
