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Royally Horrified CRI Lawsuit: Side-by-side Comparisons – 7/23/2020

In October 2019 I sued Emma Chase,

EverAfter Romance, and Simon and Schuster for

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

of my book Part-time Princess and repurposing it into Royally Screwed.

Part-time Princess is the ‘PG-13’ royal romantic comedy that I wrote and published 7/28/14 after my mom got sick and died. Royally Screwed by Emma Chase published over two years later on 10/16/16. I first blogged about it in ROYALLY HORRIFIED.

I’m adding more side by side comparison graphs displaying overlap between the books. In addition to the Kindle Percentages used to mark the overlap I’m also updating the graphs with

Chapter and page numbers taken from the paper books.

I’m doing this to give readers a few different options to keep track of all the lifts.

Please look at all the re-written material in the above chart, then look at the page numbers. You will see the repurposed material lies in close proximity — a CLUSTER. This is not ‘coincidence.’ This is not ‘inspiration.’ Part-time Princess was WIDE OPEN while it was being repurposed.

PLAGIARISM isn’t just ‘Copy & Paste.’

There are varying types of plagiarism. An article by Raimo Streefkirk on Scribbr explains the various types of plagiarism. What was done to my book is primarily Mosaic plagiarism although there is some Copy & Paste.

“Verbatim Plagiarism – (copy & paste)

“If the structure and the majority of the words are the same as in the original, then it is verbatim plagiarism, even if you delete or change a couple of words here and there.”

Mosaic Plagiarism (Patchwork plagiarism)

“means copying phrases, passages and ideas from different sources and putting them together to create a new text. This includes slightly rephrasing passages while keeping many of the same words and structure as the original.

This type of plagiarism requires a little more effort and is more insidious than just copying and pasting from a source, but plagiarism checkers like Turnitin can still easily detect it.”“Types of Plagiarism” by Raimo Streefkirk – Jan. 17, 2018 – updated Jan 14, 2020

https://www.scribbr.com/plagiarism/types-of-plagiarism/?fbclid=IwAR2QT46_Pp71_x42disEYEt1xjUbo5g4VnZC9ulwjE6TTtqntvVau-IIOrA

My book was re-written and re-purposed without my consent. Part-time Princess is NOT in public domain, nor is it free for the taking. Ms. Chase NEVER licensed Part-time Princess.

My book is not a royal romance ‘STARTER KIT.’

My book is not something you can buy, download, move scenes about, flip sentences, making it easy peasy for an opportunistic author to skip the part about creating a world, a plot, a hero, heroine, and side characters. Instead that author can concentrate on writing over my story with RHYMING words, SEX, and ADVERBS.

Here’s a newly published (7/23/2020) sequence of overlap between Part-time Princess and Royally Screwed. This is close to ‘The End’ in both books.

A Scene close to the end of both books where the Heroine has returned to her home town in the States.

The Hero professes his love for her and travels from his foreign county to her place of employment — a bar/restaurant to win her heart.

H/H reunite #1
H/H: Reunite #2
H/H: Reunite #3
H/H: Reunite #4
H/H Reunite #5
H/H Reunite #6
H/H Reunite #7

I’ll be updating the blog more frequently.

What I’ve shared is the tip of the iceberg. I’ll be adding a blog page with primarily just the graphs of the overlap I have made public. I’ll be adding Chapter and page numbers taken from the paperbacks. I’ll be adding additional information that I am allowed to share. Please understand that as much as I’d love to share everything — I’m just not allowed to do that. That’s how litigation works.

Please remember that both myself and Ms. Chase are real people living real lives. Try not to bully or bash either of us on social media. That’s not cool and that’s not going to solve this problem.

Besides — I can’t help but wonder if someone gave Ms. Chase BAD ADVICE…

If you are at all inclined — please contribute or share my Go Fund Me. Litigation isn’t cheap. I’d appreciate any help you are comfortable giving. https://www.gofundme.com/f/big-pub-amp-authors-stop-repurposing-our-books

As always — thank you to those people that have been so kind to me during this process. The re-purposing of my book has gutted me.

A bigger brand author re-wrote my book without my consent. Big Pub and the author have repurposed the copy/derivative work EVERYWHERE. Do you think I’m the only Indie Author that Big Pub is doing this too?

We need to stick up for ourselves and our works or “copyright” won’t mean a thing.

Pam DuMond

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Emma Chase and her big publishers took my PG-13 ro Emma Chase and her big publishers took my PG-13 royal romantic comedy Part-time Princess and repurposed it WITHOUT MY CONSENT into the erotic royal rom-com ROYALLY SCREWED.

This is a VIOLATION. This is a horrible thing to do to another author in the writing community. It’s also illegal.

Did you know that Plagiarism isn’t simply copy & paste? PARAPHRASING another author’s book is also plagiarism. (For more info on plagiarism — check Scribber . Com)

Sentences were flip flopped, scenes pushed around. Many of the names were kept the same — some were edited and mashed together. 

To see more examples of plagiarism — including entire scenes in Part-time Princess that were re-written as Royally Screwed — 1 click the link above.

Who does this crap to people in a writing community? I can’t help but wonder if someone gave Emma Chase bad advice.

I sued Emma Chase and her big publishers Oct. 2019 for copyright infringement. 

Stick up for your copyright people or kiss it goodbye.

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Why did Emma Chase feel that it was ‘okay’ to Why did Emma Chase feel that it was ‘okay’ to re-write my PG-13 royal rom-com Part-time Princess and repurpose it as the Erotic royal rom-com — ROYALLY SCREWED?

We learned in grade school not to copy from others. Part-time Princess is NOT free for the taking nor is it in the public domain. I can’t help but wonder if someone gave Ms. Chase bad advice.
 
Here are a few examples of PARAPHRASED, rewritten material where Chase tacked on adverbs. 

Sadly -- paraphrasing and tacking on adverbs to another writer's material does not make that re-written material "Originally conceived."

Did you know that PLAGIARISM isn't just copy and paste? Did you know that PARAPHRASING another writer's material is also considered plagiarism? (To understand more about plagiarism there’s a great brief article on Scribber . Com  https://www.scribbr.com/plagiarism/types-of-plagiarism/)

Emma Chase and all her publishers are NOT ALLOWED to repurpose my book. 

Repurposing my book WITHOUT CONSENT is a VIOLATION and it is ILLEGAL. 

I sued Emma Chase and her big publishers for COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT in October 2019.

To see more lifts that were repurposed from Part-time Princess and re-written in Royally Screwed —click the link to my blog above.

Stick up for your copyright, people, or you can kiss it goodbye.

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Why did Emma Chase feel that it was ‘okay’ to Why did Emma Chase feel that it was ‘okay’ to re-write my PG-13 royal rom-com Part-time Princess and repurpose it as the Erotic royal rom-com — ROYALLY SCREWED?

We learned in grade school not to copy from others.

Perhaps Ms. Chase didn’t know what to write? Right — she talked about that in Royally Screwed Acknowledgements. 

Perhaps Emma Chase was on a tight deadline? I can’t help but wonder if someone gave Ms. Chase bad advice.

Part-time Princess is NOT free for the taking nor is it in the public domain. 

Emma Chase and all her publishers are NOT ALLOWED to repurpose my book. Repurposing my book WITHOUT CONSENT is a VIOLATION and it is illegal. 

I sued Emma Chase and her big publishers for COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT in October 2019.

When you re-write someone else’s book — with that book wide open — no matter how hard you try to paraphrase and move re-written content around — you will still PLAGIARIZE.

Then it’s just a matter of tracking that plagiarism down and graphing it. Once you crack the pattern of how the material was repurposed — you can find a ton of repurposed material. 

I did.

To see more lifts that were repurposed from Part-time Princess and re-written in Royally Screwed —click the link to my blog above. To understand more about plagiarism there’s a great brief article on Scribber . Com

Stick up for your copyright, people, or you can kiss it goodbye.

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