There's a big-bold copyright 2006 on the website, and that covers the
graphics that appear on the e-book cover page. Even if the text is thinly
fictionalized, the graphics are not.

Do your homework.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, <ctonline@webtv.net> wrote:

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>
> <<Please do not waste your money on this unauthorized publication.
> We were never contacted prior to publishing and at no time was the use
> of copyrighted art from the roadhaus site requested or authorized.
> While there is a small kernel of truth about the allure of gadgets, this
> short booklet is poorly written and a waste of money. >>
>
> In your opinion E. Scrooge
>
> I didn't realize fiction required anyone to be contacted for
> authorization, or a copyright request in triplicate required.
>
>
>
> << The story presented here is pure fiction written as entertainment for
> my fellow VW friends on various VW, Type I, Type II, Vanagon and Syncro
> web page bulletin boards and blogs. The hero of our adventure is a real
> person, but everything here is just fantasy for the purpose of
> lighthearted entertainment.>>
>
> I'm real sorry Mr. Chase--I didn't see your name mentioned anywhere in
> this brief description, or in the book.
>
> Actually I was quite amused by the publications contents.
>
> If it's close to home, take it for what's it's worth, & be honored if
> you feel that Stanley or anybody for that matter would take the time to
> give a distant, remote account of your misadventures as a gypsy on the
> road in your over accessorized, over loaded, underpowered, undermanned
> Vanagon.
>
> Copyright--Authorization---
> You gotta be kidding me.
>
> I bow to the king of the gypsies.
>
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