And So It Begins--
Dan Clore
As a special "Happy Hallowe'en to Me", I seem to have made literary history:
http://tinyurl.com/6yhp2a
October 23, 2008
CreateSpace Author Accused of Plagiarism
And so it begins. John Fitzgerald, "author" of Necronomicon Everything
You Never Wanted To Know, has been openly and vehemently accused of
plagiarism by Dan Clore, who posts in his review of the book: "The
majority of this book has been copied directly from my website, The Dan
Clore Necronomicon Page: Everything You Never Wanted To Know About The
Necronomicon (Al Azif) Of The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred But Weren't Afraid
Enough To Know Better Than To Ask!"
On Clore's site, the opening line reads, "The publication of hoax
editions of the Necronomicon -- a fictional work used as a prop in the
weird fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other writers -- may seem
a simple matter. On closer examination this may no longer appear to be
the case."
And, in what I'm *sure* is coincidence, the "Look Inside" option of
Fitzgerald's CreateSpace sends me directly to a page that reads, "The
publication of hoax editions of the Necronomicon -- a fictional work
used as a prop in the weird fiction of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and
other writers -- may seem a simple matter. On closer examination this
may no longer appear to be the case."
They are pretty much the same throughout, from what I am able to read on
the Look Inside option.
He made the post on Oct. 6, 2008, but Amazon/CreateSpace/Booksurge has
not seen fit to remove the book and it appears to still be in
production. I assume they're investigating, but it is not uncommon that
book sales be frozen, to reduce liability of the parties, if any should
be found.
Print-for-free is doing a lot to harm self-publishing in general. The
lack of editing, quality control and high prices have taken the industry
to new depths, ensuring whatever gains they've made in the last decade
are lost. Now it would appear that the fundamentals of copyright might
be in jeopardy, in my opinion.
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
"Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas
zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam
not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not;
Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang
and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in
night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna),
&c., &c.,"
-- The Book of Dzyan.
Lesmond
>
>As a special "Happy Hallowe'en to Me", I seem to have made literary history:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/6yhp2a
>October 23, 2008
>CreateSpace Author Accused of Plagiarism
>
>And so it begins. John Fitzgerald, "author" of Necronomicon Everything
>You Never Wanted To Know, has been openly and vehemently accused of
>plagiarism by Dan Clore, who posts in his review of the book: "The
>majority of this book has been copied directly from my website, The Dan
>Clore Necronomicon Page: Everything You Never Wanted To Know About The
>Necronomicon (Al Azif) Of The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred But Weren't Afraid
>Enough To Know Better Than To Ask!"
Awesome.
--
This post intended for entertainment purposes only.
Franklin Hummel
> He made the post on Oct. 6, 2008, but
> Amazon/CreateSpace/Booksurge has not seen fit to remove the
> book and it appears to still be in production. I assume they're
> investigating, but it is not uncommon that book sales be
> frozen, to reduce liability of the parties, if any should be
> found.
Did you ever *actually* contact Amazon, Dan?!
If so, you should have a case number they sent you in their
emails to you. And if you have that, send them the *full* link
and a copy of this review ASAP.
If you haven't, just go to Amazon's "Contact Us" or "Feedback"
pages and send this *now*. The links for those pages appear just
about on every page at Amazon.
As I said, Bad Press is the last thing Amazon wants, *especially*
with its Print-and-Pay sales.
-- Franklin Hummel in Boston, Massachusetts
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Dan Clore
For those interested, I've now heard back fro Lulu:
Mr. Clore,
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have removed the
content in question from our site, and contacted the user. If you have
any further questions, please let us know.
Regards,
Nick Popio
--
Dan Clore
Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
John Goodrich
John Goodrich
Al Smith
>
> Mr. Clore,
> Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have removed the content in question from our site, and contacted the user. If you have any further questions, please let us know.
>
> Regards,
> Nick Popio
You can't ask for a better response than that.
-Al-
Kevrob
Way to go, Dan!
Does this now make you a _propertarian_ anarchist? :)
Kevin
Jack Campin - bogus address
>> Mr. Clore,
>> Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have
>> removed the content in question from our site, and contacted
>> the user. If you have any further questions, please let us know.
Surely Dan was hoping for the guy to vanish some dark night to the
accompaniment of a soul-rending scream and a chorus of infernal groans
ascending into the blackness of the empyrean, and for nothing to be
left of his house but a pool of cold, glowing liquid covered with a
drifting mist that smelt of sulphur and graves.
==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts
Dan Clore
> On Jan 5, 2:25 pm, Al Smith <inva...@address.com> wrote:
>>> For those interested, I've now heard back fro Lulu: Mr. Clore,
>>> Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. We have
>>> removed the content in question from our site, and contacted the
>>> user. If you have any further questions, please let us know.
>>> Regards, Nick Popio
>> You can't ask for a better response than that.
> Way to go, Dan!
>
> Does this now make you a _propertarian_ anarchist? :)
Not really. The issue here (so far as I'm concerned) was one of fraud
(plagiarism, presenting my work as his own) more than one of
intellectual property. I mean, the guy just did a copy-and-paste of
stuff from my website and deleted "by Dan Clore"* from it, publishing it
under his own name.
*Except in the one case where he forgot to do so.