English teacher aims to correct Netflix’s alleged plagiarism

The storyline of a pack of teenagers living in the bucolic Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina who aim to find a missing treasure is not so out there.

 

That’s according to a high school English teacher in Hamptonville, North Carolina, who says in a federal lawsuit filed in December in Georgia that the creators of the hit Netflix show “Outer Banks” stole the idea for the show from his 2016 novel “Pennywise: The Hunt for Blackbeard’s Treasure!,” the Winston Salem Journal reported Tuesday.

 

Kevin “K.W.” Wooten, who teaches English and creative writing, named Netflix Inc. and the show’s creators, Daniel S. Burke and brothers Jonas J. Pate and Joshua W. Pate, who grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as defendants.