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Originally Posted by gmw
As already noted, copyright protects original expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. I don't have the expertise to know exactly where the cut off is, but there I doubt if there would be a problem with someone writing a book about a zombie boy going to a zombie school and being hunted by an evil zombie who wants to be dead forever, it's possible that calling it "Harry Rotter, the boy who died" might be a bit much, but you'd have to speak to your local IP specialist about that.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is not just inspired by the original. It uses the original text. So it uses the original expression of the ideas.