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[quote=Anonymous]This is an excerpt of a longer comment but I think it's worth reading 
"Larson also signed more than one contract where she knew she was lying. She KNEW that someone else did have a copyright claim in her piece (as evidenced by the e-mails where she admits clearly to lifting Dorland's letter that occurred chronologically before signing contracts claiming she had not -- this is true of both early and later contracts); and she KNEW (for some of the later contracts) that there was a legal dispute over copyright (sometimes after she filed her lawsuit!), and signed contracts saying there was not. These are not legally legitimate contracts, because she lied during their formation, and induced the opposite party to rely on assurances that she knew were not true. Honestly virtually every place that published her piece, or considered publishing it, has a cause of action against her for breach of contract. Some of them have a further cause of action against her for exposing them to liability through her knowingly false assurances; some of them have in the contracts that they can recover considerable costs from her. She is lucky that, so far, she has not been sued by publishers.

This is not a minor breach. This is a major breach, that invalidates every contract Larson signed relating to this story. She knowingly defrauded every publisher that published or wanted to publish this story. And even after she knew that Dorland was contesting her copyright, even after she knew that her group chats and texts had been entered as evidence in a lawsuit THAT SHE FILED, she continued to lie about those facts and about the timeline."

From https://www.metafilter.com/192846/Do-writers-not-care-about-my-kidney-donation#8158275
(Also this was interesting to me because I recognize the poster from many years ago as a frequent commenter on Consumerist, so I know she's a real lawyer) [/quote]

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