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Egregious and idiotic plagiarist of the month award

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LizW65:
http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1553538.html

This is just jaw-droppingly insane!
(Mods, if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move.)

Starbeam:
Oh, google Cooks Source.  There's tons of stuff out about it.  Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi tweeted about that yesterday.  Just from those two alone, websites get crashed.  One thing I'd mention is that it's not really plagiarism, the article did credit the original authors.  Lots of the blogs and articles are calling it plagiarism, though it's more copyright infringement.

But yeah, that was just really stupid of them to do.  Apparently, at some point yesterday/last night, pictures and recipes on the website got removed and replaced--people were going through to see what else had been used without permission, and they found stuff from Paula Deen and Martha Stewart.

Snowleopard:

--- Quote from: Starbeam on November 05, 2010, 08:09:25 PM ---Oh, google Cooks Source.  There's tons of stuff out about it.  Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi tweeted about that yesterday.  Just from those two alone, websites get crashed.  One thing I'd mention is that it's not really plagiarism, the article did credit the original authors.  Lots of the blogs and articles are calling it plagiarism, though it's more copyright infringement.

But yeah, that was just really stupid of them to do.  Apparently, at some point yesterday/last night, pictures and recipes on the website got removed and replaced--people were going through to see what else had been used without permission, and they found stuff from Paula Deen and Martha Stewart.

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Borrowing from either of those ladies without permission is like hitting a dragon on the tail with a sledge hammer.
I wanna be in the next Universe when they find out.
And the woman who wrote back is gonna be very, very sorry when life comes crashing down on her.

Shecky:
I love the Schadenfreude Pie recipe that John Scalzi posted in response. I MUST EAT THAT.

Starbeam:
A very good blog post about all this, with links to other blogs and articles--http://howpublishingreallyworks.com/?p=3450

--- Quote from: Shecky on November 06, 2010, 11:35:49 AM ---I love the Schadenfreude Pie recipe that John Scalzi posted in response. I MUST EAT THAT.

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And for anyone wondering about this, the recipe--http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/

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