There's a site called
Workflow:Writing that has a list of blogs about writing. Although I can't speak to all in that long list, I heard from one, on a writers' board, who had until recently been on the list. No one had asked her permission. This site took her RSS feed and posted it, along with all the other sites, and had advertising displayed against it. Click on one of the article links, and you get the original page, only in a frame with a top section that shows a banner ad and the Workflow:Writing logo. Maybe this one woman's blog was the only one stolen - because that's what you call it when you appropriate someone else's property for your own gain. But I have a funny feeling that if I checked with the other bloggers, I'd be hard-pressed to find one that had given explicit permission. If you blog about words, check the link and see if its own had co-opted you. And if you don't, consider stopping by there and expressing your dismay over people who want to cash in on the hard work of others. This site is worse than a writers' mill. At least those offer
some token payment. One ironic point: one site with at least one article posted is
PlagiarismToday.
UPDATE: Make that two writers whose work has appeared and who said that they hadn't given permission. Any guesses on how many
did give permission? Do I hear ... none?
Labels: plagiarism, writer mills
1 Comments:
Erik, I did not give permission and at least two of my Twitter followers are in the same boat.
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