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

*paranoia*

[mazzie.livejournal.com]

looking at my last post, your last post, nothing is jumping out ... oddly panicked just the same.
the mind is a terrible thing.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You do own your words. Something doesn't have to be explicitly copyrighted to be be copyrighted.

If it were me, I'd be really pissed, but I DO write for a living.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Compliment or not, it's wrong.

I haven't written much of anything lately, but if it was me, I apologize.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

What's the phrase? Good artists plagiarise, great artists steal?

If they were going to do it as some sort of meme, it would be nice of them to link back. Heck, the phrase 'shamelessly stolen from X' is a common one at LJ.

I knew it wasn't me because I doubt you'd be contacted by your ex and were requesting brownies as a result, but I checked anyway.

(I sometimes hunt down old posts of mine on another board, another name... it's another life. What an odd stranger she is.)

[thewayupward.livejournal.com]

It would be really funny if your entire friends-list except the person who actually ripped off your stuff commented on this worriedly saying, is it me? In the interests of um making this dream into reality, lemme just say - is it me? ;_;

PS. Most times it'd probably be me - 's never happened yet, but I'm terrified it's going to happen someday. I swear, I have this completely worthless capacity to get words stuck in my head the way other people get song stuck in their heads. Upside is, I can quote vast swathes of poetry; downside is every time I say something I have to reread it to make sure I haven't accidentally quoted someone I just spoke to a couple hours ago, or something.

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

You know what my attitude toward this kind of thing is? I'm easy. None of the stuff on my 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 my 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.

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

Because I'm really paranoid, I just want to make sure that it wasn't me :-x

But that sucks. I mean, even if it doesn't bother you, people should be creative enough to think of those things on their own. At least putting it in as a quote would be flattery without the lifting/stealing part :\

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

friend Joe the other night talked about a song he 'wrote' called Sally in the City. Joe's a banjo player, and he played the song in public. He was told by a fellow artist that it was very much like, written in the same key same time signature same progression an old fiddle tune called 'Sally in the Garden'.

Certainly an accident. Kind of like George Harrison's run in about "He's So Fine/My Sweet Lord.

But...deliberate?

We have new software here at the l.s. so we can run papers received through and make sure that everything is properly credited and so forth...

So sad.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Echo anxious question - it wasn't me was it?

IT seems a bit freaky to have one's words plagerised. I suppose when they are on the public domain they are no longer yours (the chief reason why I only write light stuff in mine) but still! Not even quotation marks.

[zen-punk.livejournal.com]

It weren't me, I know it weren't!