Posted on 06/03/2005 6:31:03 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
At least three times, Ward Churchill has taken other people's work and published it without their permission, the Rocky Mountain News has found. In doing so, he has sometimes changed their words and, in one case, even added erroneous information.
And in doing so, the prolific University of Colorado professor violated copyright law, legal experts said.
"He should have gotten permission," said Barbara Weil Laff, a Denver attorney who specializes in intellectual property copyright law. "I would assume that someone who writes books for a living would understand copyright law."
Churchill declined to comment on the matter.
What Churchill did is different from plagiarism. He gave Coulter and the other authors, Rudolph C. Ryser and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, credit for writing the essays he published. He just didn't give them notification that he was going to do it.
"He hasn't tried to pass it off as his own, so it's not plagiarism," Laff said. "It's pure copyright infringement."
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Robert Coulter:"He doesn't have the skill or expertise to add (endnotes) to a paper on my own subject."
ElizabethCook-Lynn: " . . . It'sOK with me. But as an editor, I think copyright has to be defended as a principle."
Rudolph Ryser: "His publication extracted this material from our publication" without permission.
Ok his written work is copyright infringement. But what about 'his' artwork? They are pretty much exact copies of the original artist's work.
Ward Churchill: 100% FAKE. He's not even a real Indian!
I heard Ward even copied a painting, I mean what is with that? Is his guy so lacking in creativity he can`t even paint something on his own? Even a chimpanzee can do that.
Why hasn't someone taken this copyright infringement clown to court yet?
Goodness that's funny and cute.
Goodness that's funny and cute.
LOL!!!
I'm just amazed anyone else would want to claim ownership of the writings in question...
Churchill is scum.....
Thanks for the ping, Ski.
LOL! Add it to your *files*
Funny stuff guys, thanks for the laughs!!!
LOL! The sad truth is they will more than likely welcome him into their "hood"...
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