Comments on: Latest Celebrity Defamation Lawsuit: Jerry Seinfeld and Wife Sued for Defamation http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:49:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: kendall http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-81127 kendall Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:40:30 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-81127 Mark, are you an idiot? Stealing ideas and not giving credit is plagiarism!!! It includes para-phrasing and changing words around so it sounds like your own. Textbooks use the ideas, but they give credit. Also, "common knowledge" does not mean you are stealing. It sounds like she copied it to me. Wow... Mark, are you an idiot? Stealing ideas and not giving credit is plagiarism!!! It includes para-phrasing and changing words around so it sounds like your own. Textbooks use the ideas, but they give credit. Also, “common knowledge” does not mean you are stealing. It sounds like she copied it to me. Wow…

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]]> By: Mark Amerman http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-5834 Mark Amerman Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:44:08 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-5834 Even if Jessica Seinfeld looked at and rewrote, as in paraphrased, Chase Lapine's book proposal, that would not be plagiarism. Plagiarism means the literal copying of sentences and paragraphs -- the form of the expression -- not the copying of ideas. There's nothing illegal about copying ideas. If it were a crime to copy ideas then, to give one example, essentially every college textbook would be an obvious crime. This is not to say that I think Jessica Seinfeld did copy Lapine's ideas. There seems to be no real evidence that she did. In any case the key device of both books, hiding vegetables in other foods, is not original to either author. Even if Jessica Seinfeld looked at and rewrote, as in paraphrased, Chase Lapine’s book proposal, that would not be plagiarism. Plagiarism
means the literal copying of sentences and paragraphs — the form of the expression — not the copying of ideas. There’s nothing illegal about copying ideas.

If it were a crime to copy ideas then, to give one example, essentially every college textbook would be an obvious crime.

This is not to say that I think Jessica Seinfeld did copy Lapine’s ideas. There seems to be no real evidence that she did. In any case the key device of both books, hiding vegetables in other foods, is not
original to either author.

]]> By: Gunter http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-5615 Gunter Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:31:03 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/08/latest-celebrity-defamation-lawsuit-jerry-seinfeld-and-wife-sued-for-defamation/#comment-5615 Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Jessica Seinfeld's agent, has a history of stealing books (yes, already PUBLISHED material) and now she has stolen Missy Lapine's book and GIVEN it to the dummmy Jessica Seinfeld. She was the agent for the Harvard sophomore who plagiarized a well-known novelist a year ago and then lost her $500K contract!!!! What, Ms. Walsh is fooled again!!! Give me a break!! Ms. Walsh is just motivated by greed without ethics. Only now, Missy Lapine has some bad-ass attorneys who are demanding a jury trial. Ms. Walsh is what is wrong in publishing. Poor Jessica! See what Jerry got you into!!! Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Jessica Seinfeld’s agent, has a history of stealing books (yes, already PUBLISHED material) and now she has stolen Missy Lapine’s book and GIVEN it to the dummmy Jessica Seinfeld. She was the agent for the Harvard sophomore who plagiarized a well-known novelist a year ago and then lost her $500K contract!!!! What, Ms. Walsh is fooled again!!! Give me a break!! Ms. Walsh is just motivated by greed without ethics. Only now, Missy Lapine has some bad-ass attorneys who are demanding a jury trial. Ms. Walsh is what is wrong in publishing. Poor Jessica! See what Jerry got you into!!!

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