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A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by landhar »

yalurker wrote: post #3

Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remorse for his crime, and fails to understand how the other kids can feel bad in any way other than because of punishment. She steals someone else's work, gets caught and sends an arrogant, rude email with absurd claims (web is public domain)…

"The original article didn't irk me nearly as much as her rebuttal. Quite frankly, if this really does put them out of business, they deserve it."

That's exactly what I thought upon reading this. And the reference to South Park is gold :-)

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by xentronium »

zdw wrote: post #6

"Instead of picking up one of the multitude of books sent to me and typing it, I got lazy and went to the www and "found" something." In school, that's called plagiarism, and you get thrown out for it... Why should it be so different in the real world?

Because real world is not a school.

NB: Probably not in this particular case.

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by nl »

Wow... that's one of the least gracious apologies I've ever seen. 1150 words, of which around 100 is the apology (including the choice phrase "I think I did a nice job for you") and the rest of it is excuses and blame shifting.

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by aasarava »

The editor's response reveals a lot about her understanding (or lack thereof) of the business she's in. Normally I'm willing to overlook small typos in blog posts -- but when you are an editor, and you are writing an important response on an important issue, it's not wise to get the punctuation wrong on the very first word. (It should be "it's sad", not "its sad".)

That she continues not to use apostrophes throughout the post and gets other things wrong ("I never ment to hurt"), pretty much sends the message that "I don't really know what I'm doing" and "I just don't really care." If, as an editor, she doesn't understand basic rules of punctuation, then is it any surprise that she doesn't understand copyright?

If, as she claims, the magazine is going to go out of business, the real culprit is the editor's lack of knowledge about the business she's in.

After all, we wouldn't feel sorry for a chef who had to close his restaurant after it was revealed that he was violating health codes. Why should we feel sorry for an editor who still doesn't understand copyright, even after having gone through this whole episode?

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by AgentConundrum »

Bleary-eyed I didnt notice it was copy written and reordered some of it.

Copyright is the default, not the exception. Unless there's an explicit declaration that copying is OK (e.g. Creative Commons, other licenses), you should assume you can't copy it.

She gets no sympathy from me. In fact, her comments just push me further from her side.

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by adamesque »

yalurker wrote: post #3

Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remorse for his crime, and fails to understand how the other kids can feel bad in any way other than because of punishment. She steals someone else's work, gets caught and sends an arrogant, rude email with absurd claims (web is public domain)…

If that list of plagiarized articles is accurate, she certainly seemed to have it coming, but you'll have to forgive me if I can't feel awesome about the victory of asymmetrical internet mob justice over a small-time regional magazine.

God forbid they ever smell blood in the water you're swimming in.

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by dgreensp »

aasarava wrote: post #15

The editor's response reveals a lot about her understanding (or lack thereof) of the business she's in. Normally I'm willing to overlook small typos in blog posts -- but when you are an editor, and you are writing an important response on an important issue, it's not wise to get the punctuation wrong on the very first word . (It should be "it's sad", not "its sad".) That she continues not to use apostrophes throughou…

Plus, if I remember correctly, the editor thought Monica should rather compensate her for editing it. She'd been in the business for decades, she said, and Monica should feel privileged. Holy crap.

Re: A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain"

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Post by [deleted] »

yalurker wrote: post #3

Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remorse for his crime, and fails to understand how the other kids can feel bad in any way other than because of punishment. She steals someone else's work, gets caught and sends an arrogant, rude email with absurd claims (web is public domain)…

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