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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Talwani issues a mixed ruling in a lawsuit stemming from a writer's short story about a kidney donor who is not happy to receive a letter from her living donor. A kidney donor who shared a similar letter with the writer told publishers and journalists that the writer plagiarized her letter. The writer is entitled to a declaration that she owns the copyright to her short story. Although the story copied parts of the donor's letter, the story's version of the letter, in combination with the rest of the short story, makes transformative use of the letter for an entirely new purpose than the original letter served. However, the writer's defamation claim fails because it was not defamatory for the donor to assert that the writer had used her letter in the first versions of her story without attribution.