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View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck sued by Susan Hasset over diet book
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by Amy Judd | June 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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The View's co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being sued for copyright infringement over her book about celiac disease by Susan Hasset, from Massachusetts.
Susan Hasset says that part of her book was stolen and used in Elisabeth's book 'The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide' as it is closely based on her book 'Living with Celiac Disease'.
According a report in the Boston Herald, Hasset claims she sent Hasselbeck, 32, a copy of her book in April of last year, in addition to a homemade cooking video, a business card, personal note and newspaper clipping. Hasselbeck published her book last month.
TMZ obtained a report by Hasset, where she listed all the similarities between the two book, including whole phrases and titles of chapters. Hasset's lawyer, Richard C. Cunha says:
without any further proof [it] would allow a judge or jury to reasonably conclude that Elisabeth Hasselbeck plagiarized Susan Hasset’s book
Elisabeth Hasselbeck recently found out she had Celiac disease, which is linked to gluten proteins in wheat and barley.
TMZ compares some of the chapters and tips:
Susan's Book Chapter 1: What is Celiac Disease?
Hasselbeck Chapter 2: What is Celiac Disease?
Susan's tips: "Shop in the outer isles of the supermarket."
Hasselbeck's tips: "Food in the outer isles of the supermarket."
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at 15:12 on June 23rd, 2009
Elizebeth stole Sue's book because she belived Sue was nothing more than a nobody from Mass. and she would never hear about this again.
I belive she did this on purpose...
at 23:47 on June 30th, 2009
Do you have the same spell-check as Hassett and her lawyer? Crazy.
at 19:44 on June 23rd, 2009
they BOTH misspelled aisles? hmmmmm
at 19:52 on June 23rd, 2009
That's a direct quote from TMZ, I have no idea how it was spelled, but good question! haha!
at 20:51 on June 24th, 2009
Hasselbeck should go cry on Chris Anderson's shoulder! Plagiarism is the new plagiarism!
at 23:43 on June 30th, 2009
In the letter, Hassett sounds, more than anything else, insulted that she wasn't approached to be on The View after she mailed the show her self-published book (I've worked in TV and, the chances of Hasselbeck even getting the book are slim to none). She also complains that her repeated comments that Hasselbeck stole her book were removed from ABC.com and that this is proof of a vast conspiracy -- but crap like that (insults, racial/political/sexual/religious, personal contact info, irrelevant/offtopic commentary/ trolling) is removed from sites all the time at staff's discretion or if other readers flag it. It's unlikely Elisabeth, Walters, Bill Geddy and Disney's CEO were there hitting the delete button. Neither Hasselbeck's or Hassett's ideas are original anyway -- books, websites and newsletters have been saying this stuff for years. Again, it could be true -- but it smells pretty darned fishy.
at 12:09 on July 13th, 2009
Dear Jack Bassett,
You sound like a complete corporate hack. Of course Elisabeth Hassellbeck received the book and her family advisers said, "Why not take advantage of the opportunity?"
It happens all the time. Besides, no attorney would take this case on contingency unless there was plenty of evidence - why waste the time and money, otherwise?
at 15:09 on July 23rd, 2009
Here is Sue HASSETT'S story - http://theviewtvreportcard.com/2009/07/the-sue-hassett-interview-by-kelly/
Read it now -- if you care about facts.