Thursday, October 19, 2006
Steal This Blog
Kathy, on Cold Climate Gardening, has a new piece discussing the theft of blog content (pictures and text); it is being hijacked for use by other nefarious websites. This raises a very puzzling and vexing issue; though I've not actively looked into it, to my knowledge, nobody has EVER stolen anything from this blog. God knows it would be easy enough: the door is always ajar, and the owner is usually outside, peering into a bush or something. I suppose it wouldn't do any good if I did find out parts of my blog were being usurped; as I understand it, the laws governing this area refer to theft of intellectual property, and I doubt my blog falls under that umbrella.
// posted by IBOY @ 8:01 AM 
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Janet... let me guess; you want the story about the time I ran out of the house naked in the middle of the winter except for gloves, holding a squirrel that got into the false ceiling, and ran into my neighbor woman.
Don
Don
No, Don... we want the PICTURES of that one! ;)
I'm like you: I can't imagine someone would want my photos. At least your writing is concise, though, so maybe someone would steal it--I think my own rambling is pretty safe!
I'm like you: I can't imagine someone would want my photos. At least your writing is concise, though, so maybe someone would steal it--I think my own rambling is pretty safe!
Oh man, Don. Where is the link to THAT story?? That must have been before I hit the blogosphere.
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: October 20, 2006
: October 20, 2006
Janet... it was published Feb. 11, 2005. My idea of linking is telling you where to go look it up yourself; none of this fancy-doodle high tech stuff around here!
Don
Don
I just want to say that I haven't actually found anyone stealing my content, but I have wanted to know how to legally protect myself, so no one could say, "Well, you didn't do thus-and-such, so we were within our rights."
But you, you go asking for trouble!
But you, you go asking for trouble!
Kathy... you're right, your discussion WAS theoretical (it was a commenter that mentioned some actual picture theft)... I was just feeling left out.
Don
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