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I Before E, Except After C: Spelling for the Alphabetically Challenged | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurie E. Rozakis
Publisher: Citadel
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0806528842
Dewey Decimal Number: 421
EAN: 9780806528847
ASIN: 0806528842
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Ms. Rozakis contradicts herself and the facts September 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In my opinion, Ms. Rozakis' little book on spelling not only contradicts itself (see below) but glaringly infringes another author's copyright
The copyright infringement consists of nearly the entirety of pages 35, 61, and 62.
Specifically:
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Page 35 of Ms. Rozakis' "I Before E Except After C" appears to print almost word-for-word
(mis-identified for the reader as a story by Mark Twain)
untitled, slightly altered, but very easily identifiable long excerpts of a story by Dolton Edwards (titled "Meihem in Ce Klasrum") which appeared in the September, 1946 issue of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION (now ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION: SCIENCE FACT -- still in business, and still holding copyright to Mr. Edwards' work.)
Since ASTOUNDING/ANALOG still holds the copyright to the story in question,
it appears very likely that Ms. Rozakis and her publisher may have therefore violated that copyright by committing the academic indiscretion of misrepresenting long passages of one author's copyrighted work as the work of another author now in the public domain.
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More disquietingly yet, pages 61 and 62 of Ms. Rozakis' book appear to repeat and compound the above clearly evident infringement.
On these pages, she reprints --
at greater length, and this time with even slighter alterations to the original work --
_seven_ _successive_ _paragraphs_ of the 1946 ASTOUNDING story.
This time, though, rather than falsely attributing a 1946 ASTOUNDING/ANALOG copyright to Mark Twain, she mis-identifies it as news reportage about a (non-existent) policy of the European Union.
I would very much like to know by what process Ms. Rozakis arrived at (and manages, apparently, to maintain) the belief that a 1946 copyright comes simultaneously from the pen of an author who died in 1910 and the office of an organization born in 1993.
I would like even more to know how Ms. Rozakis (apparently) came to suppose that readers in the market for a serious work of reference would perhaps not notice.
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