Our favorite delusional munchkin has been harassing the legal team at Vampire Freaks about being plagiarized. His suspension there is still in effect until December 6. VF has a “legal team”? Really? Color me skeptical. The following is from this Tumblr entry.
The VampireFreaks.com legal staff and I have talks going on to take care of the plagiarist — I made a powerful statement on video about the whole thing being plagiarized and those who pretend that the plagiarism hasn’t happened. That is up there with denying the Holocaust happened.
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The legal staff asked me if it was Jet who plagiarized — I told them it wasn’t him but someone else and had to explain the story he plagiarized was not published yet.
He was pranked, not plagiarized. Saying he was not plagiarized is the truth, which he wouldn’t know if it scampered up his leg and nipped him in the nuts. Better yet is his claim that the story of his that he thinks was plagiarized hasn’t even been published! The lulz are strong with this one.
I think any ‘legal’ team of most of nicky’s websites isn’t really a lawyer, but someone with a hell of a sense of humor and tons of patience who can say “we’ll get right on that sir!!!” with a straight face before they hang up on nicky and spend the rest of the day laughing their ass off.
So….I just dropped this lil delusion over at VF. The response should be amusing.
LOL!
I think it’s time for me to sign up over there too. After all, I do have a new vampire book out, and they might enjoy Fossil Lake!
— C.
Add me when you join- Stinkycat 🙂
Sometimes it feels like my brain is breaking when I try to read his posts.
Does he not understand that titles aren’t actually intellectual property, and can’t be copyrighted? And that reusing a title isn’t actually plagiarism?
What am I saying? Of course he doesn’t understand that, or indeed anything.
I have run Pacione’s titles through a search (Amazon books, IMDB, Yahoo) and it is not uncommon to find them used before he used them. That goes for his character names too: eg, the character name Nick Kane was used before Pacione wrote about Nickolas Kane. Short phrases like names and titles can be randomly replicated so the US Copyright law does not protect them.
Nicky posted a video today, in which, during the few seconds that lead up to the 3:00 mark, that he knows he was being pranked. Not that that matters to him in his never-ending quest to ruin other people’s careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwf0WuCy_mE