Plagiarism

[poliphilo]

Someone just plagiarised a couple of sentences from my last post. They dressed 'em up a bit, but I know my own children.

It's a compliment, right?

I'm not cross (well, not very) and part of me is flattered. Since neither of us is making money out of this I don't regard it as any big deal. I just want the person that did it to know I know.

Dude, the convention is to put "borrowed" material in quotation marks and to give the original author credit.

Still, I'm easy. None of the stuff on this blog is copyrighted. And maybe (who knows?) there are other people out there taking credit for what I've done. I'm not a professional writer or photographer. My philosophy with this blog is that I'm putting messages in bottles and casting them out to sea. What happens next is up to wind and wave and ocean current.

Comments

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Mebbe someone is pretending to be you. I advice a course of rampant paranoia. Or you could give them a snarky reply requesting credit, if you haven't already.

See, now I'm suffering major deja vu from reading your post, because I know I have seen it somewhere before but I don't recall where. Oddly enough, it's probably from reading your post several times. It's deja vu-ing itself now.

Still, I'm sorry someone swiped your words without permission or citation. Our words are our credit in this online community, makig plagiarism more of a theft here than elsewhere.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I often look at lines I've written and think, "now where have I seen you before?" It usually happens when I'm particularly pleased with something.