I’m still sniggering at the phrase ‘intellectual property’ would not that presume some form of intellect to take property of?
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Yes one person tried because she was not forewarned. Nick Peronace called her wanting a job. He proved that he couldn’t ride the 5 year old horse she put him on (as in he couldn’t make the horse go forward at all when it called his bluff.) She had to go out and lead him back from the corner of the arena.
She declined to employ him because he was unqualified and he got nasty with her on the phone He left her angry, threatening, obscenity laden messages after she stopped answering his phone calls.She posted on COTH to warn others that he was cold calling farms and that he was not a person that you would want on your property.
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I know nothing about copyright law but I doubt that he can prevent people from sharing bits from his book via PM or email.
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Or reading it aloud over the phone to a friend over the course of a week or two. Gotta guffaw over the “editing” and “proofreading”.
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Or mailing the actual book-- not handmade copies of it-- from one person to another. Sort of like the sisterhood of the traveling (riding) pants.
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Not in New Jersey. He never worked as a bondsman in NJ. NJ bondsman laws are/were very strict, high standards. Im not sure they have bond anymore… You have to be a policeman with years of experience, plus Abe recommended by someone already in the field, then intern for a year or more with someone who agrees to sponsor you. He took a 6 week matchbook cover course in PA and bought a gun. PA laws/were loose on the matter, but even so, he never got any work at it. He showed photos of him on a ride along once with other guys. No sign they asked him back.
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Quoting from a book while giving full credit, as in a review is not plagiarism. You can give samples to illustrate your point in a paper you write, if you give page, author, and title. Quoting samples in a book review or any other written discussion is not plagiarism if you cite page, etc.
Copying pages and sharing them may be a copyright issue, but sharing a book it’s self with a friend is not.
Copying someone else’s artwork and logo, and using it as your own,saying the author should be “flattered”, and not asking permission, as Nick Peronace has done, is a copyright violation.
I guess copyright is good enough for Nick, but not for anyone ue wants to steal from.
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I remember being alarmed anyone would give him a gun! The violent language used in his Beefman rants alone disqualifies him in my eyes.
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I think the Chronicle may have the rights.
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I have the book in my little paws. I will simply summarize content and paraphrase. Post maybe a line or two while giving him full credit. I’m hoping that by reading his book he will change my mind and consider him a real trainer. I’ve done lots of clinics, trained with good people, showed a bunch, and was associated with a large breeding and showing facility and have a decent handle on the dressage world. So Nick, this is my mindset going into this book. I will post my thoughts on your book here.
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The Forward, written by Heather Micelle Marchman, a BS and M.A. in clinical Psychology, so she’s a Master of Arts (not science) and not a psychiatrist… She refers to Nick as a victim and survivor of bullying by women who clearly have an issue with men. She compares his bullies to stalkers, depressed people with low self esteem and lacking social skills.
She calls NP “classically trained” who only tells the truth and his critics “Swamp Town”, people who only want to ruin his career. It doesn’t occur to her why NP became a “Swamp Town” target in the first place. She concludes that “Swamp Town” will be triggered by his book and she hopes that they will consider all the harm they’ve done to poor Nick as he just tried to tell the truth about dressage.
She’s retired says she has a life-long passion for horses. I question her sense of professionalism to write such a one-sided and poorly researched forward.
Oh Lordie, I suspect this sets the tone for this book!
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The Introduction.
NP is setting the stage to paint himself as a victim of “sadistic people” in the horse world. He assures us that everything in the book is true and is something he actually experienced. He thinks he received this feedback from simply telling the truth which made people angry. He thinks he has been abused more than anyone else “in the industry”. I didn’t realize he was actually “in the industry”, I thought he was trying to be. Huh.
He ends by saying he was stalked, ruined and harassed. “Out of the blue”, I guess. People just saw his name and decided to ruin him? That is the impression I am getting so far.
“They’re fear of the online hate mob” (Nick Peronace). This is the second typo/grammatically incorrect issue I’ve seen in something like 3 pages of text.
More later…
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Bless you.
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That’s getting into some scary incel-type justification right there.
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I have to wonder how she came to write the forward.
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I’m sure he’ll take this as a compliment, but he sounds like Trump. Poooooor MEEEEE. Greatest Witch Hunt of all Time! The big bad meanies have never been meaner to anyone than meeeee!
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I’d retire too if I had associated myself with a dishonest, homophobic racist. The internet is forever and his posts live on. He can’t blame his behavior on COTH members.
Is it lack of due diligence by his friend who wrote the “forward” (sic), or do they share the same views? Who knows…
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He says on his FB post “That’s how you fight fascism!”
What - with more fascism?
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I wonder what kind of “forward” she’d have written, had he claimed to be a clinical psychologist? He tends to claim to be all sorts of things he isn’t. Would she have remained silent as he tried to counsel people and act like he had a degree? Did she do any research at all prior to agreeing to participate in such a sham?
That’s really not much different than his claim of being a dressage trainer/instructor and upper level at that. I believe most every one here would have supported and encouraged him, had he been truthful and said he was an amateur starting to show at training level, which is a lot closer to the truth. Instead, he made claims he can’t back up with proof and is annoyed because he’s been called out on his fraudulent behavior.
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Yes, I’m tempted to contact her
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