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Magazine Says ?Toxic Bachelors? Article Was StolenThe pop culture magazine Radar has accused a Chilean magazine of plagiarizing its article Toxic Bachelors, which depicted celebrities like Colin Farrell and Matt Dillon as cads. Then again, Radar, which has been published on and off over the last few years, freely concedes that it borrowed the toxic bachelors concept from other sources, like a book by Danielle Steele and the Sex and the City TV series. And Radar says that an Australian magazine, NW, paid to reprint a version of Toxic Bachelors, which ran in Radars March/April issue. Now Radar would like to see some compensation from the Chilean magazine, Cosas, which also apparently tried to sell magazines by printing pictures of single men alongside articles describing them as bad boys. The article, Solteros Tóxicos, imitates the tone, character, feel, concept, format and storyline of the Toxic Bachelors article to a high degree, wrote Scott P. McBride, a lawyer with the Chicago firm of McAndrews Held & Malloy, in a letter April 27 to Cosas. The letter demands that Cosas pull the issue from newsstands and compensate Radar an unspecified amount. After reviewing the English and Spanish articles for The New York Times, Laura Turégano, associate director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University, wrote in an e-mail message, The Chilean article is a copy of the Radar article, adding that the descriptions of each bachelor contain both exact translations of the Radar article and slight adaptations. Cosas, which publishes editions in Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, did not respond to e-mail requests for comment. Manuel Santelices, whose byline is on the Cosas story, is listed as a member of the magazines New York bureau but does not have a published number. Maer Roshan, the editor of Radar, said by telephone that he was amused that Cosas had the chutzpah to put a byline on the story. A snide item on Radars Web site said, How do you say, We will soon own your entire magazine in Spanish? ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationHedging ’06: Year to Read the Caveats...Chavez Threatens to Expropriate Steel Maker... Strong growth casts doubt on rate cut... World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Wal-Mart Buys Stake in Chain... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Magazine Says ?Toxic Bachelors? Article Was Stolen |
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