I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
#1I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:12pm
I also post on the website TelevisionWithoutPity.com (on there my 'name' is Anakela21, as Anakela was already taken), as well as a bunch of other places, and so earlier today I was googling myself to find something I had posted on TWoP a while ago, (yes, seriously), and I discovered someone taking my TWoP post, and passing it off as his/her own words on another website.
I feel so loved! I mean, if I was going to claim credit for something I hadn't written I would claim the good fanfic out there or something, you know? Who does a copy/paste of someone's post on TWoP and tries to pass it off as his/her own?? That's just lame and sad.
But not sad enough to stop me from writing about it and mocking you. :)
Me and the plagiarist, a side by side comparison
#2re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:16pm
Wow, you totaly busted me. I jest, but really how weak is that?
Didn't other posters recognize the post?
You are right though, lame to be sure.
#2re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:16pm
That's insane! Who does that?
(Hilarious list, btw. I would totally claim that as my own... I mean, uh...)
#3re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:21pmPerhaps the old adage applies: "Great minds think alike."
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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
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#4re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 12:21pmI know, right- I mean, I know everything online is fair game and it's not like just because you wrote something you have a copyright on it or anything, but dude at least switch up the order when you copy/paste a list.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#5re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 1:38pm
SUPER lame, but as they say, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Of course, this isn't imitation so much as outright theft, but still... 
Jilani
Broadway Star Joined: 6/30/05
#6re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 1:50pm
it's not like just because you wrote something you have a copyright on it or anything
Actually, it IS like that. The moment you fix a creative work of authorship in a tangible medium of expression (which includes posting original thoughts on a website), you have a copyright on that work. The problem with the internet is that it's very difficult to enforce/police the copyright, but it still exists.
#7re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 2:02pm
The problem with the internet is that it's very difficult to enforce/police the copyright, but it still exists.
Really? I always thought that was the problem- that it (it= copyright on what a person writes online) didn't exist, because like copyright laws weren't keeping up/changing as fast as to keep up with progress, to include the internet? Or something like that. Interesting- good to know, thanks.
Jilani
Broadway Star Joined: 6/30/05
#8re: I have my own personal internet plagiarist!
Posted: 5/24/07 at 2:06pm
The issue is that the internet is like the Wild West of copyright - there's just no way to keep track of all the violations, and it's also difficult to sue entities whose servers are entirely outside a particular country's jurisdiction.
Oh, and another thing to look out for is the terms of service of the website you are posting on - they might include language that says anything you post automatically becomes their property, in which case you would be relinquishing your copyright to anything you post on that site.
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