Many news outlets subscribe to services that send out transmissions of news and other facts to their subscribers on a minute by minute basis. In the early days of radio and to some extent even today organizations take this material and use it as their own because they’ve paid a subscription price to do so. In the media, this is referred to “rip and read”.
There seems to be a disturbing (to me anyway) trend in the number of lengthy blogs that are merely copied and pasted from other sites lately without any attribution whatsoever. I’m not a legal scholar in any way shape or form but I always thought that copying another persons words verbatim was an infringement upon their copyright, if not legally, then certainly morally. This whole situation is akin to the illegal practice of downloading an artists material to your computer or other electronic device to be entertained by it over and over and over again without having paid a dime for it, thereby denying the artist any iota of compensation for their trials and tribulations.
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2 Comments
RDOF_Posse
Jul 18 2008 07:39
Statistics & quotations
are in the public domain. I’m talking about composition, expository pieces that have no attribution yet are clearly owned by another author.
rubbercatfish
Jul 17 2008 16:19
I guess it depends.....
If your just posting information that is available to all, or if your claiming it as your own. To claim it as your own, Then I agree! That’s just wrong!
But just to post as information, well, thats different. I can copy and paste the stats of any driver in a blog. Sure, I copied them, but had I called all the local newspapers, sports networks, drivers or their team headquarters, I would get the exact sme info. Same as if you or anybody else got it. In that respect, I’m only posting what is true and obvious, and cannot belong to any one person. But yeah, to take credit as your own , what somebody else wtote, is definantly wrong.