This story has been spreading rapidly across the Internet. Basically, a person wrote an article five or so years ago. An online magazine decided to put the article in their magazine without asking the author’s permission or offering compensation. That’s stupid (and illegal) enough, but here’s the kicker: when the author asked for an apology and a $130 donation (a small price to pay for such obviously blatant copyright violation), the editor says “the web is considered public domain” and that the author should be happy that they edited the article for free.
Needless to say, nobody is defending this dumb editor, and the magazine is getting its deserved public shame. The editor could’ve fulfilled the author’s request, and I’d probably never hear the story. But instead the editor replied with arrogance and amazing stupidity. Just thought I’d help spread the story along. It will be interesting to see where this ends up.
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S P Hannifin · November 4, 2010 at 6:09 PM
This has really exploded today, just google “Cooks Source” … The magazine’s website is now gone, its Facebook page is being flooded with negative comments, big blogs and news sites and web celebrities have reported the incident, people have found that many (if not all) of the magazine’s articles are copied from somewhere without permission, and there’s even the threat that some people are going too far in their attacks against the editor, such as seeking out her home address (which has since been deleted).
Needless to say, I’m sure this is the end of the magazine…