PUBLISHER MUST PAY PLAGIARISM AWARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400290024-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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I PUBLISHER MUST PAY1
CPYRGHT PLAGIARIS''1 AWARD
United States District Judge!
Edward C. McLean has directed
?Litttle, Brown & Co. to pay
$650.11 to Dirs. Gilbert Wheat-I
land Smith for plagiarizing an.~
lu p blished manuscript, which
told the story of a 16th-century
Irish pirate queen named Grania
V .Malley. The decision was
!led in United States District,
!Court for the Second District
on Tuesday.
Judge McLean noted that in,
'a previous decision on the case
in 1965 he had found that Helen
,Louise Jones, juvenile editor of
,Little, Brown, either showed
'Mrs. Smith's manuscript to Mrs.
Edith Patterson Meyer, a Con
necticut author, or gave her a
detailed account. of it. Mrs.'
,Meyer wrote a children's histor?
heal novel on the theme, called
1"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 toy
Miss Jones, "certainly it was;
not part of her duties to assist!
in, plagiarism." The Judge con-
tinued:
"There is no evidence that
any officer of defendant (Littl,
Brown) participated in the pla
giarism in'any way, or knew of
Itor authorized it or ratified it."
An. appeal is being taken by
,Mrs. Smith against the. denial
of punitive damages. Mrs.
Smith, who wrote her inantl-
script of ' the Grania O'Malley
story under the name of Carol
Crosswell Smith, -is a lawyer
anwife of an ;investment
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