Fame or Infamy ...

[Ally]

You are kidding me. What a complete waste of oxygen that man is.

[Casebook Wiki Editor]

Page 2 has the teenaged Park and Mr. Powell discussing the forged Anne Frank diary. Yes, you read that right. Forged.

[Ally]

This book is a high colonic. Especially if you are someone driven to despair by poor punctuation, such as improper use of it's versus its, which is my own personal jihad.

Oh I screw that one up all the time when writing quickly. I wouldn't be so tacky as to do it in formal writing though. I've also noticed a distressing tendency for their instead of there creeping into my writing. I think my keyboard is possessed, I KNOW the difference yet I type a paragraph, read it over and go...what the hell?? There's a their there!

[Casebook Wiki Editor]

Now that I know he's not only done copyright violation but plagiarism as well (by not citing Casebook at all and ripping off the content and not crediting me with my own words) I am thinking of purchasing a copy.

If nothing else, you'll need a copy to provide your attorney.

. A high colonic might be needed after reading the book.

Mike

This book is a high colonic. Especially if you are someone driven to despair by poor punctuation, such as improper use of it's versus its, which is my own personal jihad.

[belinda]

He had you fooled then. Nothing genius about Wood except that he somehow got his movies made.

Mike

But that's part of his genius

[belinda]

Belinda,

The last time there was a book this bad that everyone had to read for the comedic effect, but no one wanted to pay for it to provide the nut job with a the coin, one person bought a copy and then it got mailed to everyone who wanted to read it, each person just paying for postage.

Now that I know he's not only done copyright violation but plagiarism as well (by not citing Casebook at all and ripping off the content and not crediting me with my own words) I am thinking of purchasing a copy.

I love Pass The Parcel

[Ally]

Belinda,

The last time there was a book this bad that everyone had to read for the comedic effect, but no one wanted to pay for it to provide the nut job with a the coin, one person bought a copy and then it got mailed to everyone who wanted to read it, each person just paying for postage.

Now that I know he's not only done copyright violation but plagiarism as well (by not citing Casebook at all and ripping off the content and not crediting me with my own words) I am thinking of purchasing a copy.

[The Good Michael]

Ed Wood was a genius

He had you fooled then. Nothing genius about Wood except that he somehow got his movies made.

Mike

[belinda]

Wally is more an English term. Drongo is the only Australian equivilant I can come up with.

I'll read the book if somebody will provide me with a free copy

[belinda]

I prefer to think of it as the Plan 9 From Outer Space of Ripperology.

Hold it right there Ed Wood was a genius

[The Good Michael]

One of the promises is to unveil the truth "after nearly forty years of lies and deception". Now, correct me if I am wrong, but that puts us in the 1970s.

I think Powell says it started in 1969 and continued for several years, up to about 1975... the creation of the diary, that is.

Mike

[The Good Michael]

This book could become 'The Celestine Prophecy' of ripperology! It may be so ridiculous that everyone purchases it. Steve Powell becomes rich and opens a Whitechapel/East End, meditation resort in the Ozarks, where everyone can relive the crimes while relaxing to Enya music and getting high colonics. A high colonic might be needed after reading the book.

Mike

[Casebook Wiki Editor]

Uh-oh. I had assumed this was one Ripper book that I could avoid purchasing. Now it sounds as though I'll have to get it just for the sidelights.

One of the promises is to unveil the truth "after nearly forty years of lies and deception". Now, correct me if I am wrong, but that puts us in the 1970s.

Which is well before the Diary. But conveniently around the time of The Complete Jack the Ripper .

I really don't care about what one wants to say about various Diary World denizens, but dragging Rumbelow into all this is just scummy beyond words.

[The Grave Maurice]

Uh-oh. I had assumed this was one Ripper book that I could avoid purchasing. Now it sounds as though I'll have to get it just for the sidelights.

[Casebook Wiki Editor]

Wow! You actually paid to read that crap? I am impressed. You might end up being the sole owner of the sole copy ever published.

I know of at least one other sucker...er, owner.

I prefer to think of it as the Plan 9 From Outer Space of Ripperology.

And out of curiousity, just how extensive use did he make? I mean are we talking lawsuit worthy copyright violations?

The Casebook is not named but referred to as "an Internet site". I'd guesstimate that about 25 pages utilize Casebook postings citing the posters' user names. Not necessarily in context. I think some of these were PMs. Chunks from Melvin Harris' dissertations appear as well.

My background is in pharmaceuticals (so is Steve's I suspect!!) and I have an dilettantes knowledge of patent law, so whether or not this is copyright violation should be taken with a grain of salt. I know that at that "other-Ripper-website" I usually frequent, there is a very clear notice that all posts become the property of said website. I presume you do the same, and so I would guess this is actionable, especially as my copy came from the good old U.S.A.

Supposedly Feldman and Robbie Johnson had "death plans" that they confided to Park. Perhaps they are not really dead.

Rumbelow makes a cameo as well. Powell says he told Don something about an Australian Diary during a Ripper tour and Don's reaction was quite puzzling.....as if he had an unusual interest or agenda behind his questioning. It's all innuendo, mind you.