tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572102937612408267.post6138229606482680135..comments2024-03-08T03:58:13.625+00:00Comments on Stickman Communications: Copyright - to use the picture or not?Hannah Ensorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12228122568368871809noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572102937612408267.post-68553357164189488922014-01-14T11:50:14.585+00:002014-01-14T11:50:14.585+00:00In my experience people don't understand the i...In my experience people don't understand the implications of copying someone else's content wholesale. In the case of the HMSA material, it means the society loses out on money that it could use to support people with EDS, and research into the conditions. With private authors, it means less money to pay the hosting bills or even our living expenses. I had to tell one blogger to stop copying my entire posts onto her blog, because it meant my traffic (and thus ad revenue) went to her public blog host, not to me. Plus, it's just rude.Matthew Smithhttp://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572102937612408267.post-58436082452751336102013-04-10T21:17:58.303+01:002013-04-10T21:17:58.303+01:00It is a huge issue. People regularly copy our work...It is a huge issue. People regularly copy our work, words and images...they then get surprised when we say we arent happy about it! They even copy great chunks of our information booklets or photocopy it! We clearly say in our booklets that this cant be done and now we are considering making our copyright right across the middle of images so as to put people off but that will kind of spoil the look! GrrrrAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804241514799874643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572102937612408267.post-9307035866485521962013-04-10T15:33:20.611+01:002013-04-10T15:33:20.611+01:00I totally agree - once an examiner whom I knew was...I totally agree - once an examiner whom I knew was walking to a class with me and he showed me something he thought was rather good - this gentleman had come across it at a British Rail training day 30 miles away and wanted to my opinion. <br />What a surprise it was a piece of my work and because of the nature of it I did not mind sharing it, however as I had never taught where this was being distributed how had it got there and how many times had it been passed on? <br />Since then I copywrite everything and when I know it is going to be passed on and people may not be able to contact me directly then I always ask that a donation of £1 minimum for each copy is donated to charityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572102937612408267.post-33895277668234259282013-04-10T11:30:07.947+01:002013-04-10T11:30:07.947+01:00I think this is terribly important.
I also think ...I think this is terribly important.<br /><br />I also think this extends to "lesser" work such as written blogs or even tweets (unless the person would prefer to remain anonymous). <br /><br />I was rather annoyed recently to discover a well known and large organisation had used a long post I had written word for word to write a briefing, without either crediting me or asking first. Ironically had they asked I would have been very happy for them to use it.<br /><br />I have to admit thought that I used to be an academic researcher and so have particularly harsh views on what I see as a form of plagiarism, be it of amateur written work or "proper" artists work.Spoonydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530660179706960529noreply@blogger.com