Posted on 12/03/2005 11:40:23 AM PST by steve-b
The debate about old-versus-new media can get a bit heavy. Meet the bloggers who are getting their own back, and having a laugh.
"But there isn't any rule against copying stuff off a website, is there?"So pleaded The Daily Mail when caught red-handed back in 2002, having run a feature called Blue Peter Saints & Sinners. The editorial process at the Mail turned out to be: a visit to nostalgia site TV Cream; a use of the "cut" and "paste" features found in web browsers and desktop publishers; then hiding when they got found out....
Happily, a sense of humour is a lot cheaper than a crack team of legal hawks.
And so it's with a mischievous grin that Guido Fawkes, Recess Monkey and Tim Worstall have announced the inaugural and far from prestigious Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award.
The Sun, The Sunday Times and The Guardian are among those in the dock, the teasing is relentless, and the name-and-shame approach might be just the ticket.
The site hosting the award is widely read both in Westminster and in Fleet Street, and no journalist wants to see their colleagues sniggering at them, forwarding e-mails about how they've got caught red-handed. And no-one wants to be the "insider" who's reporting what the rest of the world knew yesterday....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This is certainly an upbeat article for such a serious charge as plagiarism, particularly since it appears on BBC. The tone of this article is disturbing.
Then they must establish a fund promoting awareness of anti-internet bias among the Legacy Media.
"The media" (as in, commercial and/or commercially funded organizations with staffs employed to write about current affairs) does not consider blogs and bloggers as posing any threat or possibility of retaliation and/or enforcement as to original content on blogs. Thus, there does not seem to be much hesitation by many to pilfer ideas, outright copied content, from blogs.
It's a case of enforcement of author rights, of creative ownership. People pilfer because they perceive blogs and blog content to lack the means and presence to assert ownership. It's despicable behavior, in my opinion, by those who pilfer the content of others.
Yeah, agreed.
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