[tpmoney]

If you go to wikipedia and look up a book, you'll likely find plenty of plot details, including character names. Is this also infringing?

As far as style goes, copyright doesn't protect that. Trademark MIGHT if your style is distinctive enough to be a trademark (and is used as such), but the "style" of a writer is largely about tempo and word choices, none of which are subject to copyright protections.

[mistrial9]

I think we are now reproducing multiple generations of debate on this topic, in a few go-rounds.. Let's note that among the four largest economies in the world, they each have different rules for this.

[tpmoney]

Do any of those economies really have laws protecting an author's "style"? Because I'd really like to see a legal definition of an author's style, and a case that found someone guilty of infringing on that style (separate from trademark and copyright of course)