 "On the Road" author Jack Kerouac (qv) was disturbed that his  friend, author John Clellon Holmes (qv), managed to get his "Beat  Generation" novel "Go" into print before his own was published  ("Go", in which Kerouac is a main character, was published in 1952,  while "On the Road" was not published until 1957). Kerouac was  worried that Holmes was plagiarizing him, although Holmes was  careful to credit Kerouac with creating the term "Beat" for their  generation, and much of the material was common amongst them and  other writers of their circle, such as Allen Ginsberg (qv).  Ironically, producer Albert Zugsmith (qv) outfoxed Kerouac by  copyrighting the term "The Beat Generation", which he used as the  title of this egregious exploitation film, which was released by  Metro