By Jordan Heller
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Writer Gerald Posner, who resigned earlier this year from the Daily Beast website amid a plagiarism scandal, was hit with a copyright suit Tuesday, for allegedly plagiarizing from a fellow book author, reported the New York Post.
In a Manhattan federal court suit, writer Frank Owen claimed that Posner is "Eligible For The Guinness Book of World Records for Copyright Infringement," the paper reported.
The suit alleges that Posner's 2009 book, "Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power — A Dispatch from the Beach," has "numerous examples of word-for-word copying" from Owen's 2004 book, "Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture," the Post reported.
"In relevant part, (Miami Babylon) is little more than a frequently verbatim precis of significant portions of Clubland, a verbal reduction sauce in which 30,000 words are reduced down to approximately 10,000 and yet the flavor remains the same — Clubland flavor," the suit says, according to the Post.
The suit seeks unspecified damages from Posner, and also targets publisher Simon & Schuster, which allegedly "conducted an internal investigation of Posner's copyright infringement ... but has not released the results," the paper reported.
A Simon & Schuster spokesman told the paper that the publisher had apologized to Owen and that similarities to his book would be fixed in later editions of "Miami Babylon."
