Jerusalem – After four years of adjudication, the Jerusalem District Court upheld the writer Sarah Shapiro’s plagiarism claim against best-selling writer Naomi Ragen. The court ruled that Ragen knowingly copied from Shapiro’s work in her novel Sotah.
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Shapiro submitted her claim against Ragen in 2007. Both writers come from America’s Orthodox Jewish community; Shapiro lives in Jerusalem and writes in English. In 1990, Shapiro sought Ragen’s opinion about her debut novel. The two met; subsequently, Shapiro claims she was surprised to find selections from her book Growing with My Children in Ragen’s Sotah.
The Haredi writer Shapiro was represented by the Corinaldi law firm – Gilad Corinaldi and Talya Grinstein served as her attorneys. Corinaldi stated that this was a case of “cultural and literary disgrace.”
Shapiro claimed NIS 1 million in damages; the court ordered the sides to negotiate the size of compensations.
She was the one who went to the High Court to stop gender division on Jerusalem buses as you could read here http://bit.ly/vZasHE now see what crook she is, shame one you!!
Ben, in that case she was absolutely right. No one has the right to tell someone where to sit on a public bus with the exception of seats reserved for security personnel and the disabled, for obvious reasons. Certainly no private citizen has the right to force someone to go to a certain area. In any case, one does not prove the other. By your logic, the fact that a cat will scratch someone proves that it will mug him.
Regarding the case at hand, they should have gone to a bet din. Fortunately the court saved them from further aveirot by forcing to negotiate a compromise. Hopefully if they cannot they will be advised by someone who hears of this case to go to a bet din.
A decision from this secular court does not mean she is a “crook.”
My aunt was suing in the same case, as her book “The Lion and the Cross was clearly was clearly the victim to plagiarism in Reagan’s book “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes. Unfortunately my aunt died a few months ago.
Unfortunately, genavas daas is not that uncommon among Jews.
New book by Naomi Ragen:
“GAZLAN!”
mwahahahahahahaha
Naomi Ragen made a career out of mocking and denigrating the religious community. She had another plagiarism case about 5 years ago, which was dismissed. Justice is finally served.
If they where really Jewish they wouldn’t go to arkois.
As #1 mantion already she was the one whoe fight against our segregerd buses so let here serve a few years in jail & stop atacking jewish people
Plagiarism is not all that uncommon in the literary world. A number of prominent best-selling authors have been “busted” including Janet Dailey, Stephen Ambrose, Doris Kearn-Goodwin, Thomas Keneally and Barbara Chase Ribaud. The smart authors will plagiarize from writers who are dead, whose work has passed into the public domain. The stupid ones will copy from another author who is alive and who can sue them.
How do you know they didn’t go to beis din first???
Why not just make an honest living?
Can someone explain how Sara Shapiro’s (excellent) book “growing with my children, suffered NIS 1 Mil, because of Ragen’s “Sotah”
To # 3. The placing of MD after your name does not show any special knowledge. Wait, was your MD received from a secular institution? Was your training under the auspices of Rabbonim or doctors? Clearly secular knowledge must stand for something.
Call a spade a spade. Regan is a thief. She stole someone else’s intellectual property. Regan is a mesareiv Besi Din. She refused the Beis Din summonses. Regan is not ehrilch. Period.
Anyone that’s been following this case knows that Rabbonim were consulted prior to the suit being filed and encouraged the suit to proceed There were even several well-respected rabbis to testify at the trial.
I did not say that an author’s work passes into the public domain at the time of their death. The legal definition of “public domain” is “any work that was published before Jan. 1, 1923.” An author may copy these works freely without any legal action against them, but it’s still stupid and uncreative to copy someone else’s work and pretend it’s your own.
Copying protected work because you think you are the big-shot best-selling author and you are copying from some putka little haredi woman who sits at the back of the bus and never reads the NY Times book review section is stupid, uncreative, arrogant, and evil.