choad wrote:

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/21327/how-to-assert-copyright-over-your-work-when-its-been-plagiarized-video/

Gratifying.

As someone who also makes a living from my written work, I applaud his defense of his content. If only it were that easy to confront most plagiarists.

$500 for a full newspaper article is cheap. I would have hit for treble damages. Just talking to his lawyer is going to cost him more than $500.

Bigcat wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

As someone who also makes a living from my written work.

I very much doubt that. Unless, it is writing bad checks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

You're citing a notorious asshole and plagiarizer to make this point?

Last time I saw Leary I yelled 'Hey Dinnis!" - an insult to any self respecting Mick - and flipped him off, because the good lord would never forgive me if I didn't. Of course he returned the favor.

Last edited by choad (2012-05-15 10:35:17)

In software development we walk a very find line with regard to licenses and attribution. Like bloggers, the good guys give away 90% of their stuff for free and make enough off the remaining 10% to consider the other 90% a mitzvah.

What rubs me about this kind of article is that you know that hundreds of other small town fish wrappers do exactly the same thing and get away with it constantly. The old coot probably copied it himself to make a deadline and fill some column inches. But it's too easy to get caught at it these days and if the blogger had dropped a bill for $5k in his lap he should have considered it a cheap lesson.