[Sca-cooks] Copyright infringement and the social networking backlash

[Katja]

Greetings,

For those of you who haven't caught it yet, a rather interesting drama has been unfolding today.

In short, Viceroy Alexander congratulated Dona Illadore, an AEthelmeartian cook, that her five-year-old Ice Dragon entry had been printed in Cooks Source ... but the magazine never asked her for permission.

Her blog contains an open-to-the-public entry on how the editor responded to her query:
https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238

*Many* people proceeded to "like" the magazine on Facebook so that we could bombard it with messages about how copyright infringement and plagiarism are not good things.

It turns out the editor has stolen copy not only from GodeCookery.com (where Illadore posted her entry and is the webmistress) but also from FoodNetwork, NPR, and other websites, all without proper permission and/or attribution.

...And the editor still doesn't get that she is in serious legal trouble:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=153357018040208&id=100000067362841&ref=notif&notif_t=share_comment#!/pages/Cooks-Source-Magazine/196994196748

The story has gone viral and is all over the main media now:
https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238

Katja