Yesterday, we shared the story of catching a Copyright Infringer red handed. Today, we share the result of that contact with the content thief in an everlasting and ongoing fight against the stealing of our written property by complete and utter dullards.
It never gets old catching Copyright infringers and yesterday was no exception. There is a sheer disgust and yet also a shared, Panopticonic, delight in catching another website red-handed copying and pasting and re-publishing your writing without your permission.
The original mind fights the middling conspiracy of pirate thievery.
What is wrong with the Associated Press? In the example below, the AP is making an insane claim of a photographic image Copyright violation against the Obama poster artist.
Have you ever had someone steal your idea and use it in your stead?
Textbook publishers are fighting against self-anointed “Open Source” warriors that copy the text of their books and then place them online for torrent downloading so students can use the books without having to pay for them.
Anything an instructor says or presents in a classroom belongs solely to the instructor and not the university or the students. This innate invocation of the right to Copyright original spoken and written material belongs solely to the mind creating the information: The Instructor.
JK Rowling — author of the Harry Potter books — is trying to quash
competition and publication of analysis in the form of an encyclopedia
dedicated to divining meaning in the series. Rowling feels Potter belongs to her and not the world. She is wrong.
The University of Iowa’s famous Writing Program is under fire from its graduate students — and the creative world at large — for its new “Open Access” philosophy of publishing creative works of its students on the internet to be found and indexed by Google and other search engines.
Few university faculty realize when they submit a paper for publication they are giving away their right to their Copyright.
Faculty
members will submit research papers to the repository often unaware
that they have signed away the rights to their work to a journal
publisher, Ms. Davis said. “They are stunned that they have not
retained the copyrights,” she said. “They’re vehemently adamant” that
they still have rights to the work.
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