{"id":750,"date":"2010-11-04T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=750"},"modified":"2010-11-04T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:31:36","slug":"copyright-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Copyright idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illadore.livejournal.com\/30674.html\">Here&#8217;s the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s permission or offering compensation.  That&#8217;s stupid (and illegal) enough, but here&#8217;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 &#8220;the web is considered public domain&#8221; and that the author should be happy that they edited the article for free.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, <em>nobody<\/em> is defending this dumb editor, and the magazine is getting its deserved public shame.  The editor could&#8217;ve fulfilled the author&#8217;s request, and I&#8217;d probably never hear the story.  But instead the editor replied with arrogance and amazing stupidity.  Just thought I&#8217;d help spread the story along.  It will be interesting to see where this ends up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the full story. 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&#8217;s permission or offering compensation. That&#8217;s stupid (and illegal) enough, but here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-c6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}