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Jun 7, 2007 11:45 am US/Pacific
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Author Sues 'Knocked Up' Director Over Copyrights
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
A Canadian author has sued NBC Universal and director Judd Apatow in Los Angeles, claiming they ripped off the premise of the hit movie "Knocked Up" from her book of the same name.
Calgary-based author Rebecca Eckler details similarities between her book and the film in an article in a Canadian magazine article.
In the movie, an up-and-coming television reporter gets drunk at a party and then gets pregnant from a one-night stand.
Eckler writes that the protagonist of her 2004 book is an up-and-coming newspaper reporter who gets drunk and conceives after celebrating at her engagement party.
She claims that she learned of Apatow's project and the script while pitching her book to Hollywood producers.
She says Apatow's script's cover had the same image as the cover of her book: a picture of a martini glass with a pacifier around the stem.
Apatow says in a statement posted on celebrity Web site TMZ that the book and film are very different.
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