Chinese Immigrants To Canada: Sky Lee

College Lecturer Dept: Sky Lee, Paul Yee and Wayson Choy are demanding $6,000,000 in damages for copyright infringement, $1,000,000 per defendant in punitive damages for bad-faith conduct plus court costs in a statement of claim filed in Federal Court in Toronto on Tuesday, according to Vancouver Sun. The book's publisher, Penguin Canada, and Nicky Harman, a U.K. college lecturer who translated the book into English, are also named as defendants in the statement of claim. Both Zhang and Penguin deny the allegations and three award-winning Chinese-Canadian authors, all former B.C. residents, have filed a lawsuit against Ling Zhang alleging elements of her latest book plagiarize their work. The plaintiffs claim that Zhang's novel Gold Mountain Blues, originally published in China and released in English earlier this month, lifts certain plot and character elements from six of their works, which deal with the experience of early Chinese immigrants to Canada. Ottawa author Denise Chong, originally from Prince George, also claims Zhang plagiarized elements of her 1994 novel The Concubine's Children, but she is not a plaintiff in this case. None of the allegations have been proven in court. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.