Strollerderby

You notice that they didn't deny ripping off the book, merely pointed out that the stuff Lapine cited was non-copyrightable?

And even if Jessica didn't know about Lapine's book, her publishers most definitely did. Publishers *always* research similar titles for marketing purposes, so if they didn't know about Lapine's book, someone needs to be fired.

Jessica Seinfeld came into the design studio I work for to talk to us about designing this book about one year before it was eventually published. The talk of plagiarism just seems like nonsense. Character assassination, however, is another matter.

I agree with the above poster who blames the publisher over Jessica Seinfeld. I worked for 15 years in the publishing industry and, as with many celeb works, there is "help" in the form of the publisher, ghost writers and editors to flesh out an said celeb work into a big seller. Once Jerry opened his yap and compared a virtual unknown to a couple of the most reprehensible murderers in our history, deemed her a "crackpot coming out of the woodwork" and such, that's when Lapine decided game on. Now he wants it thrown out because hey, he's a comedian, he just makes jokes, you know? Please. I hope Ms. Lapine gets a hefty sum.

NYC Designer - Did you read the original legal papers. They're actually a very interesting read and they point out in detail all the time the Seinfeld book specifically copies the Lapine book, down to the exact same language. Lapine and her publishers saw the Seinfeld work while it was in production and asked for imagery to be changed as it was almost exactly the same as the Lapine book.

Too many similarities between the books.