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Jessica Seinfeld Hauled Into Court for Plagiarism

Posted by Karen


Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals, has filed papers with the courts to take on Jessica Seinfeld for plagiarism.

Jessica's similar book, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting your Kids Eating Good Food, went on the market 6 months after Lapine's did.

The suit addresses the similarities between the two books, the comments Jerry Seinfeld made about Lapine "coming out of the woodwork," and the fact that Lapine pointed out similarities between the books to her own publisher and to Seinfeld's 6 months before publishing her own book.   

I have no idea how this is going to end, but Jessica is annoying and my Granny has snuck veggies into all kinds of foods for years.   I think Granny needs a cut of the action.

 

UPDATE: Thanks Uri for the link to the actual court documents. 

 


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Posted Jan 08 2008, 08:10 AM
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Comments

 

Sassy Smith said:

Your Granny should sue both those bitches..hahahaha

January 8, 2008 9:02 AM
 

chyna823 said:

I've looked at both books, and the similarities are pretty fishy. I'm just worried that Lapine will get eaten up by the high-power lawyers that the Seinfelds can no doubt afford.

January 8, 2008 9:37 AM
 

MamaT said:

There are some big similarities - even looking at the cover design.  I think Missy is right, but Seinfeld is going to pull out all the expensive lawyer. Bleh.  Between his big mouth and that of Michael Richards, Seinfeld has totally been ruined for me.

January 8, 2008 10:55 AM
 

Cindy said:

I'm rooting for the little guy here.  I hated seeing how Jerry Seinfeld, one of my favorite comics, trashed Missy Chase-Lapine over the airwaves.  I'm hoping that the Seinfeld's high priced lawyers won't win out, but they probably will.

January 8, 2008 11:54 AM
 

Uri said:

Jessica Seinfeld SO obviously copied and only minimally changed Missy Lapine’s cookbook and called it her own. Wow, READ THE LAWSUIT on “TheSmokingGun.com” website before you take my word. It’s so amazing to see all of the stuff that Jessica Seinfeld copied and changed very little from the real book by Missy Lapine.

I mean, my god, what is wrong with her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh (who also represented the PLAGIARIST Kaavya Viswanathan from Harvard)? Does she think that the public is stupid? It’s sooooo simple to put the books together as the lawsuit papers show on thesmokinggun.com to see what happened. This makes Oprah look like an IDIOT!

Frankly, I don’t really care about the slanderous comments that Jerry Seinfeld made to try to publicly humiliate Missy Lapine. Ms. Lapine is soooooo far more of a class act than Jerry Seinfeld that it was pretty much a joke to me (like everything that Jerry says.) Besides, I’m fairly confident that the copyright infringement stands on it’s own merit. For crying out loud, it’s in INK!!!!

IT IS SHOCKING!!! Jessica Seinfeld is SO BUSTED! Jerry is going to have to pay out the whazoo for this one! Good for Missy!

January 8, 2008 9:51 PM

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