Dear Mr Lem, I have read your new book with the complicated feelings of a father discovering his child has been kidnapped, educated in Poland and become successful.
Client alleges plagiarism occurring across national borders and, in at least two instances, before publication of the allegedly plagiarised material. Asked client to clarify chronology.
Chronology is precisely the point.
Advised client that copyright does not protect ideas. Client replied that this proves copyright law has also stolen one of his ideas.
The claimant seeks recognition, damages, return of several futures, and such further relief as the Court considers temporally appropriate.
Contains twelve pages. Page one begins: “Dear Stanisław”. Pages two to eleven comprise a table of similarities. Page twelve reads: “I nevertheless admire the book.”