Sunday 19 July 2009

Something about intellectual property and copyright

It's not that I don't feel honored, finding out, that someone thinks my latest reply to Will is worth reposting on their blog.

What pisses me off is that, while I wasn't asked whether I'd agree to a reposting, I'm not given any credits, no link, nothing, on the contrary, to make the impudence complete, at the bottom of the blog it says: "Copyright 2008 Seven Human Needs". WTF is the meaning?! Rhetorical question. Just watch the Google ads at the blog...

Of course, I'm not the only one. Robert A. Senser at Human Rights for Workers obviously is a favorite of this spam-blogger.

2 comments:

WillSpirit said...

Same thing happened to me with one of my recent posts. I won't put the link here, because I don't want them to help them out anymore than I already did by writing my essay that was stolen without my permission. It is so obnoxious that people can steal other's writing, and act like its their own. Have they no ability to write themselves?

Marian said...

WillSpirit: Sometimes they are people who steal others posts, essays, articles, etc. in order to make an impression themselves. People with low self-esteem, desperate for self-confirmation, while their low self-esteem prevents them from writing their own stuff. They find something on the net, they think will let them look "great" in one or the other way in the eyes of the world. So they steal it, and publish it in their own name.

The blogger we're dealing with here though, obviously only is looking for one thing: easy cash through Google-ads. The more hits the blog gets, the more Google will pay. So you need contents, that is likely to attract readers. Socio-/political and spiritual topics are likely to attract readers...