This morning I had to send 5 emails to various websites and blogs and MySpace pages that have copied word-for-word posts from here without crediting me or the blog. It seems I have to do this every few days and it becomes tedious. The next time it happens I’m posting the offender’s email here and everyone can write to them to tell them to stop it. I average between 3000 and 5000 readers per day so if even a portion of those readers hits the infringer, they will have a swell time cleaning out their mail box. The next step will be (I’m a lawyer after all) court. I have a bar card (3 actually) and I’m not afraid to use it. The only other alternative would be to shut the blog down and I do not want to do that.
at least it’s the sincerest form of flattery!
And you better get ready for your book to sell like hotcakes…
Thanks Serenity. :)
What really annoys me is when they post it and they get comments about how brilliant it/they are and they don’t say it’s not their words. I have actually commented a time or two taht directs them back here but I’m a bit tired of that.
I use a lot of expressions that I have gotten mostly from others and always credit them. It’s not that hard. Most of my stuff is not original but the way it’s put together is original (which is why it’s copyrightable).
Thanks for being here!
Absolutely. I read papers at the end of almost every semester and grow very tired
of the laziness, if not outright unwillingness, to credit sources. The problem
has grown worse with the availability of information on the internet, but the internet
does not change the rules about crediting sources. Plagiarism is still plagiarism!!
It really isn’t that hard to give credit where credit is due. I make every effort to do that
and expect others to do the same.