Osler's Razor

Keep me posted on this one....
 

Wow, I'd check for plagiarism because this looks exactly like your book. Except the blurb from that news genius Hannity. Good grief! Know any good intellectual property lawyers?

 

I don’t think there’s anything written down that is not a reinterpretation of something written before. Whether it’s history repeating itself…just different stage, different combatants same conflict or human nature repeating itself…just different players same drama; writing about it is pretty much repeating itself. However, and it’s a big however, A CONCEPT around which one builds a story has to be awarded protection to the person who got to it first. Since we are fortunate to have an IP expert at hand I’m sure he’ll point that it’s a bit more complicated, but still taking someone’s idea and running with it, cannot be right. In this case, because of his odious brother, David Limbaugh has a lot more exposure and his book a lot more chance to appear like some genial idea, when in fact it is not. Not even a decade away from a book that was written around that same idea. Funny this IP issue comes up at the Razor, because just the other day I was in a meeting with the private foundation that funds the project I’m working on and IP came in the discussion as a big, complicated bone of contention. Private Pharma company using cheap academia R&D expecting academia will sit back and let them rake in the money after the findings are in and the path is set drug discovery. Well academia, in this case Columbia University is just as nasty a shark and the matter of IP a lot more complicated.
 

I'm interested in reading the book-- what will be intriguing is if he tracks any of my analysis or language.
 

I'm guessing some people's response to this is colored by the author's last name. Just go to Amazon and search for "jesus" and "trial" and you'll find several books, including one from 2002 with *gasp* a crown of thorns on the cover. Not to mention that based on the synopses of the two books, they appear to be pretty different in their subject matter, despite the similar titles.
 

I notice that the 2002 book you mention is also called "Jesus on Trial"-- shouldn't someone check this kind of thing out before a book is published? The authors of that one probably with a different title had been chosen, at least.

I'm waiting until the book comes out to see if the content is similar… hard to know that at this point. Certainly, the author has a different political viewpoint than I do-- and that may lead him in a different (and perhaps worthwhile) direction.
 

It doesn't sound like Limbaugh's book is about anything. What does it mean that he's "making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ"? Surely he's not literally trying to prove Jesus existed? I know there are those who dispute it, but you'd never prove it by reading the gospels carefully, and it seems like a stupid premise for a non-scholarly book. I don't think that's what it is.

So he's going to give the gospels "scrutiny he would apply to any legal document and asks all the necessary questions"?

It sounds like it's just a book where he says he's a lawyer, and even through a lawyer's eyes, that Jesus sure was good people. It'll be an emptily world-view confirming book for people like my mom.

It won't be your book at all.

I'm sorry it'll be a best seller, but there's a reason for everything. Often that reason is: life sucks.
 

Rick Box, love your last two sentences!
 

Boy, Professor, I hope he has the good sense to throw himself on the mercy of the court.May I go on the Family Victory Cruise to Tahiti?