Cassie Edwards - Revision history

DianeKPeterson at 10:59, 13 November 2022

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Patsysmith: corrected typo

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corrected typo

Uvolbert at 14:12, 4 September 2008

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Laura V at 22:46, 23 January 2008

2008-01-23T22:46:30Z

Robini: Added controversial plaigiarism stuff, tried to formalize the page a bit

2008-01-22T23:45:01Z

Added controversial plaigiarism stuff, tried to formalize the page a bit

Laura V at 19:28, 15 January 2008

2008-01-15T19:28:45Z

Laura V at 19:24, 15 January 2008

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Laura V at 19:22, 15 January 2008

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Laura V at 14:41, 14 January 2008

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Laura V at 12:07, 14 January 2008

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−	{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Cassie}}[[Category: Authors - E]] ~~[[Category:Award-Winning Authors]]~~ [[Category: Controversial Pages]]	+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Cassie}}
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	'''Cassie Edwards''' is "the world's most successful author of American Indian historical romance novels" (Leonards, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']), and published her 100th book in August 2007.		'''Cassie Edwards''' is "the world's most successful author of American Indian historical romance novels" (Leonards, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']), and published her 100th book in August 2007.

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 Edwards also recently celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary, and resides in Mattoon, Illinois.
-==Allegations of Plaigiarism==
+==Allegations of Plagiarism==
 In January 2008, Edwards became embroiled in a plagiarism scandal when a romance blog noticed some similarities between her works and uncredited nonfiction passages.

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-[[Category: Authors - E]][[Category: Controversial Pages]]
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Cassie}}[[Category: Authors - E]] [[Category:Award-Winning Authors]] [[Category: Controversial Pages]]
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Cassie}}
+'''Cassie Edwards''' is "the world's most successful author of American Indian historical romance novels" (Leonards, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']), and published her 100th book in August 2007.
 Edwards also recently celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary, and resides in Mattoon, Illinois.
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 The owners of the site contacted two of Edwards' Publishers, and received a canned response from [[Penguin]], and the following from the [[Signet]]:
-    Signet takes plagiarism seriously, and would act swiftly were there justification for such allegations against one of its authors.  But in this case Ms. Edwards has done nothing wrong.
+<blockquote>Signet takes plagiarism seriously, and would act swiftly were there justification for such allegations against one of its authors. But in this case Ms. Edwards has done nothing wrong.
-    The copyright fair-use doctrine permits reasonable borrowing and paraphrasing of another author’s words, especially for the purpose of creating something new and original. Also, anyone may use facts, ideas and theories developed by another author, as well as any material in the public domain. Ms. Edwards’s researched historical novels are precisely the kinds of original, creative works that this copyright policy promotes.
-    Although it may be common in academic circles to meticulously footnote every source and provide citations or bibliographies, even though not required by copyright law, such a practice is virtually unheard of for a popular novel aimed at the consumer market." [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/finally_heard_back_from_signet 2] This statement was later retracted (see below).
+The copyright fair-use doctrine permits reasonable borrowing and paraphrasing of another author’s words, especially for the purpose of creating something new and original. Also, anyone may use facts, ideas and theories developed by another author, as well as any material in the public domain. Ms. Edwards’s researched historical novels are precisely the kinds of original, creative works that this copyright policy promotes.
 The news was also picked up by Hillel Italie, of the Associated Press, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20080110/ca_pr_on_en/books_romance_plagiarism who spoke to Edwards]:
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 ===Resolution===
-Edwards' Webpage has been taken down, and it appears we won't be hearing much more until the situation is resolved.
+In April 2008 publisher [[Signet]] broke with the author. [http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/04/19/edwards-romance-signet.html CBC.ca News, April 19, 2008]

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 On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].
-While many of Edwards' sources, most notably texts by Luther Standing Bear, were old enough to be public domain, furhter investigation revealed copying from dosuments still under copyright, such as an article by Paul Tolme about black-footed ferrets.
+While many of Edwards' sources, most notably texts by Luther Standing Bear, were old enough to be public domain, further investigation revealed copying from documents still under copyright, such as an article by Paul Tolmé about black-footed ferrets.
-Tolme wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] on the 15th of January 2008, and described the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and took the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets. This eventually spawned fundraising in the Romance Community for the cause.
+Tolmé wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] on the 15th of January 2008, and described the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and took the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets. This eventually spawned fundraising in the Romance Community for the cause.[http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/we_did_it/]
 ===Copying Fictional Works===

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-Cassie Edwards, "the world's most successful author of American Indian historical romance novels, with more than 10 million copies of her 99 books in print" (Leonards, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']) became embroiled in a controversy about plagiarism when, on [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/cassie_edwards_extravaganza/ Monday 7 January 2008] the romance review and comment blog [http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/a_centralized_document_for_the_cassie_edwards_situation/ Smart Bitches who Love Trashy Books] reported that they had found passages in a number of Cassie Edwards's novels which bore striking similarities (in some cases whole phrases which were identical) to passages in published works of non-fiction. The news was picked up by Hillel Italie, of the Associated Press, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20080110/ca_pr_on_en/books_romance_plagiarism who spoke to Edwards]:
+[[Category: Authors - E]][[Category: Controversial Pages]]
 "A popular U.S. romance novelist alleged to have lifted work from other texts acknowledged she sometimes "takes" her material "from reference books" but added she didn't know she was supposed to credit her sources." (9 January 2008)
-Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, some of the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] (15th of January 2008) in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.
+===Further investigation===

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−	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] (15th of January 2008) in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.	+	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, some of the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] (15th of January 2008) in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.

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−	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.	+	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] (15th of January 2008) in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.

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−	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].	+	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph'']. Paul Tolme, author of an article about black-footed ferrets, the text of which found its way into Cassie Edwards' ''Shadow Bear'', wrote an article for [http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ''Newsweek''] in which he describes the context in which his text makes its appearance in Edwards' novel, and takes the opportunity to give the reader further information about black-footed ferrets.

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−	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]] and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].	+	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]]) and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].

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−	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/~~ap_en_ce~~/~~books_romance_writer_2~~ 10th of January] and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].	+	Italie followed this up with further reports on the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF 10th of January] (which includes comments from [[Nora Roberts]] and the [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_en_ot/romance_writer 11th of January] as further details emerged and as Signet, one of Cassie Edwards's publishers, reviewed its position. On the 12th of January reports about the allegations appeared in the [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/books/12roma.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ''New York Times''] and the [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wnovel112.xml ''Telegraph''].
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−	* http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_en_ot/books_romance_writer;_ylt=AlDZxRGlQldtwE4JloAe7bJREhkF Nora Roberts says peer lifted material]