Writer asks court to dismiss suit over Bush book by Kitty Kelley

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Internet-based writer asked a court Friday to dismiss his $5 million lawsuit accusing author Kitty Kelley of plagiarism in her book about President Bush and his time in Alabama in the early 1970s.

Alabama writer Glynn Wilson said he decided to drop the case because he feared U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon was about to rule that copyright law didn't cover his story on the Internet about Bush's days in Alabama, where Bush was supposed to be serving with the National Guard while working on a Senate campaign.

Such a ruling by Clemon would erode the legal protections that cover Web-based writers, Wilson said.

"That's the more important principle here, and it's a problem that's got to be fixed," he said.

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internet theft is already rampant. A bad ruling like that would give every tom, dick and harry thief a license to steal.

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