The Day The Internet Threw A Righteous Hissyfit About Copyright And Pie : Monkey See : NPR

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From http://www.npr.org 5129 days ago

Yesterday brought a giant dust-up over a magazine lifting its content from the Internet on the assumption that if you see it online, it's in the "public domain."

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Written by saraib820
5128 days ago

I agree with Yoni,

This is an excellent and informative piece but it all comes back to square1: if it's on the Web it's rife for being stolen. Aside from throwing a hissyfit, nothing can be done.

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Written by businessavante
5129 days ago

GUILLOTINE !!! (half-kidding)

businessavante

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Written by yoni67
5129 days ago

usgssssgss:

I've been preaching this in a business blogging sense to a lot of writers who believe that they can in fact copywrite or trademark their postings. As a writer, author, blogger and member of the Writer's Guild of America, I agree: the Internet is public domain. Anything out there is there for the taking.

The most you can hope for when somebody plagiarizes a business blog or any type of article is that they will find the decency to credit the original author...though they usually don't!

Yoni

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