[Ansteorra] A Storm is Brewing

Dana Busenbark danab-steppes at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 4 20:14:33 PDT 2010


It wasn't that they took the recipes, it was that they took a whole article, fixed a couple of wording issues/problems and then published it.


On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:11 PM, rose_welch at yahoo.com wrote:

> I have to say that recipes themselves cannot be copyrighted, and if the wording was substantially changed, then it was most certainly not copyright infringement.
> 
> However, it was absolutely moral plagiarism, and the editor deserves every bit of what they are getting.
> 
> There are times that I shake my head at the Internet, and other times, like this, that I am filled with glee. :P
> 
> -R
> 
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Busenbark <danab-steppes at earthlink.net>
> Sender: ansteorra-bounces+rose_welch=yahoo.com at lists.ansteorra.orgDate: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:21:04 
> To: Inc. Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA<ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Cc: <TwinMoons-L at ondercin.com>
> Subject: [Ansteorra] A Storm is Brewing
> 
> This came from another SCA friend up north. There are two emails here. Enjoy the reading!
> 
> An SCA cook who runs the popular and helpful godecookery.com website
> had an article used without permission or payment by a magazine called
> Cooks Source.  She complained to the editor, and was told that:
> 1. Stuff on the Web is public domain
> 2. They cleaned up the writing for her
> 3. She should be grateful that they left her name on it, instead of
> attributing it to someone else.
> 
> She posted about this on her LJ, and the word spread.  Neil Gaiman
> (with 1.5 million followers) Tweeted about it.  It was picked up by
> some of the major blogs, and is now hitting more traditional news
> outlets, like the Washington Post.  The magazine's website is offline,
> and their Facebook page is being filled with . . . many honest,
> uncensored remarks.
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/cooks_source_masters_new_recip.html
> 
> It also appears that this same magazine may have plagiarized from
> Paula Deen, NPR, and Martha Stewart.  I predict that char-broiled
> editor will soon be on the menu.
> 
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> 
> Someone said pass the teriyaki sauce, and the response to that was:
> 
> Save the sauce.  At this rate, there aren't going to be enough scraps
> of editor to be worth saucing.  Slashdot has picked it up, and Wil
> Wheaton, and the Guardian (UK), and a blogger on Publishers Weekly.
> And there are several law firms that specialize in IP/copyright cases
> who would love to offer their services.
> 
> The righteous wrath of the Internet is a wondrous thing to behold.  I
> could feel sorry for the editor, except that she really was asking for
> it with that astoundingly arrogant email.
> 
> Schadenfreude, baby.
> 
> 
> And I wonder why I always send out a request asking for permission to use things for my lesson plans! No matter how little it is, even in education when we're allowed to use things for educational purposes, I always ask for permission.
> 
> 
> Fiona the Needleworker
> a.k.a. Fionnbharr le Nedlere
> m.k.a. Dana Busenbark
> 
> Barony of the Steppes
> Kingdom of Ansteorra
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m.k.a. Dana Busenbark

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