An author of a very minor article was upset because we excerpted it (my first upset author EVER--all like the traffic). I had an "interesting" exchange with him. Here are some of the best parts.
Upon learning his article was excerpted:
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Posted 15 September 2004 - 10:24 PM
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| Why has someone Hijacked, edited and posted my copyrighted article in the forums ? Who's in charge here ? Why are Email addresses of Forum Administrators hidden and no way to contact someone ? Who is going to pay to have my edited article posted ? Why are the Admins hiding anonymously ? How do you contact a LIVE BODY from this plagiarism site ? |
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| Baloney ! Look, whoever you are - your user *** hijacked, edited and posted my article and I want it OFF your site. You do not have permission to use excerpts or quotations thereof and you are hereby notified by the owner you are not welcome. <snip -- irrelevent> I have seen the garbage and nut stuff posted to your site and don't want my name associated with that blog cesspool and you are hereby notified not to use brief quotes, excerpts or extended passages from any of my material posted anywhere now or in the future. I don't do the blog-cesspool trip and if your site is lacking in original, intellectual content, which appears to be true, DO NOT plagiarize mine. Copyright and intellectual property laws allow me to do that and I do hereby demand your site cease and desist. You have not seen the original content as your pin-head blogger edited it - who the hell does he think he is ? |
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| Amateur ? My book "*****" is going to be published - the research and fact-checking has taken three years... That makes my agreement with the publisher a 'professional' arrangement and me a professional writer of history, strategic affairs and geopolitics. My upcoming book and everything else is copyrighted. I personally know ****, founder of **** (the site htat hosted his article) and go back a ways with him - I have sent him an Email - he's not going to care about your site. What you have is not an excerpt - it has over 75% of the word count of the original - a thinly-veiled attempt to rip off my work. 75% of the word count would make that 75 of 100 pages - oooops. ***** gets my work exclusively and permission is granted to NO ONE. Got that ? My copyright statement says "...brief quotations only, no excerpts, web-site postings of excerpts, or extended passages..." My book places me in a different category than the amateurs and disaffected types who post to blog sites, not unlike spray-painting their name on a wall to let the world know they exist. My lawyer says the agreement with the publisher places me in a category of intellectual property and content not extended to people who just post opinions in Cyberspace. Amateur, hardly. See my book when it is published - you can even get a free HTML copyrighted version when it comes out as I have allotted one hundred such copies. Look, the inane comments posted on your site in response to my article in no way add to the topic, enlighten anyone or add to the collective intellect. I honestly don't see any useful discourse occurring on your site, though there are many opinions and inane comments by many who are, apparently, intellectually lazy. From all appearance you traffic in many people with way too much time on their hands. Were the appearance of your site otherwise, I would gladly give permission. Your site is in no way a equal to, or a counterpart to *****, which has many professional and published authors writing for the site. I do one site and one site only - ***. Only *** regulars get any more than time of day - in fact, they get every courtesy I can extend. Sorry, but that does not extend elsewhere, especially to blogger sites, which generally have a bad name and reputation. <his name> "Amateur" |
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| Your site is a lowest-common-denominator blogger site. I read many of the rude posts and comments by your bloggers. |
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| Death Threats ? You demonstrate my point and underscore my concern about being associated with extremist blogger sites but, apparently, fail to get it or otherwise catch on to what I am saying. I have no death threats but many have disagreed - and they get the courtesy a reasoned response - not a rude series of comments by anonymous bloggers on a blogger site, people too ashamed to post a real name or take responsibility for what they say. And that is exactly the problem with the dog-eat-dog blogging universe... After seeing your site, I completely understand why you and your staff may be having problems with individuals wishing to do you bodily or remunerative harm. You can also kill that annoying account I had to create to post a violation notice - was convinced I'll be sold to SPAMMERS over that... |
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| That blogger site deleted my article that had been thinly edited and posted as an "excerpt". I suppose you can ignore the earlier Email - I am just concerned that those annoying, extremist blogger sites would feel free to copy/paste my articles, which are exclusively for your ****. I looked around the Blogger section of RighNation.us and it's the usual mish-mash of rudeness and irresponsible adults who believe the anonymity of a screen name is a license to be insulting and rude. Some guy named "Mark" at RightNation.US said you will likely be angry that you are deprived of the site traffic you could get by my stuff being copy/pasted to their site by the intellectually lazy. Thought you would get a chuckle from that - them plagiarizing MY stuff would hurt YOU. Unbelievable ! Stranger things happen... |
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| I guess revenge is the ultimate refuge of a scoundrel. Now you are amply demonstrating my concern with extremist blogger sites ! People who work under a veil of anonymity and have the temerity to insult and take revenge without the balls to use a REAL NAME and back up what they say. Turns out you can't have a heated disagreement without turning into a little weasel, huh ? Those extremist blogger sites are all the same. No wonder people want to kick your ass above your shoulders...I understand completely. Whoever you are... |