Meghan Markle has been embroiled in a plagiarism dispute after a British creator described “placing similarities” between her personal books and a proposal by Markle for a youngsters’s TV present.
Markle was listed as one of many govt producers of Netflix’s animated sequence Pearl, introduced in July 2021 as a part of the reported $100million growth deal between the streamer and Markle and husband Prince Harry, following their transfer to the US in 2020.
Within the blurb for the undertaking, Pearl was described because the story of a younger lady who learns to step into her energy and finds inspiration from influential girls all through historical past.”
The undertaking was binned earlier than growth, however now The Every day Mail newspaper studies that UK creator Mel Elliott claims she despatched a authorized letter to Archewell Productions, the corporate behind Markle and Prince Harry’s TV initiatives, and to Netflix, alleging attainable infringement of her copyright.
Elliott is the creator of a sequence of Pearl Energy books, which debuted in 2014. The third e-book within the sequence was printed in 2016 and translated into a number of languages. Elliott instructed The Every day Mail:
“Meghan is a feminist who sticks up for different girls, so I used to be disillusioned and confused to see how comparable Netflix’s proposed present Pearl was to my very own Pearl Energy, who had been created seven years earlier.
“After all, I can’t know if anybody on her workforce had seen it and been impressed by it, however the similarities have been too nice for me to disregard.”
Elliott instructed the newspaper she despatched two letters, however didn’t obtain reply or acknowledgement. The Solar newspaper reported that it had reached out to each Netflix and Archewell Productions for remark.
