PUBLISHER MUST PAY PLAGIARISM AWARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400290027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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'PUELIS~~ER 1~1US~' PAY
L;r.itcd States riiztrict Judnc
Edward C. ~1cLcan has directed
Litttlc, Brown ~. Co. to nay,
$650.11 t0 1111'ti,_(i 11bC1't `'V hC~lt-
land Smith for plagiarizing and
unpublished manuscript, which)
itold the story oP a 16th-century)
Irish pirateauecnnamed Crania
;O ~~Ialley. Tho decision was,
filed in U:tited States District'.
'Court for the Second District
on Tuesday.
Judge 112cLean noted that in
a previous decision on the case
in 1965 he had found that Hclcn
Louise Jones, juvenile editor of
Little, Brrown, either showed
T~II:s. Smith's manuscript to Rirs.
Edith Patterson Itii:cycr, u Con-
nccticut author, or gave her a
detailed accounC of iL. Mrs.'
Meyer wrote a cltildren's histor-
ical novel on the t~lemc, called
"'Pirate Queen," which Little,
-Brown published in 1961.
Judge McLean, rejected Mrs.
Smith's request for punitive
damages against Little, Brown.
He stated, in a reference to
Miss Jones, "certainly it was
not part of her duties to assist'.
in plagiarism." The Judge con=~
tinned:
"There is no evidence that!
zany officer of defendant (Littl,~
~23rown) participated in the pla-~
~gtarism in any way, or knew ofl
ilt or authorized it or ratified it."
An. appeal is bcirg taken byl
1~rs. Smith against the denial
of punitive damages. ivlrs.
Smith, who wrote her manu-
script of the Crania O'Malley
story under the name of Carol
? swell Smith, ~ is a lawyer
and the wife of an investment
banker.
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