Or:
news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne … 001866.stm
Mark
Haha nice one.
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And if you buy the county fair hype it was as world wide as v2.0. Not to mention that it was very much a lifesaver for one particular side of bacon. It had viral marketing, it trapped bugs with no additional debugging systems, was free of viral infections, had not spam marketing, and was “child safe” (although ladies were a little spooked by it).
All in all the 2.0 version doesn’t seem like a real improvement to me.
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Legal plagerizing is “quoting” without any meaningful additions. 
And if you buy the county fair hype it was as world wide as v2.0. Not to mention that it was very much a lifesaver for one particular side of bacon. It had viral marketing, it trapped bugs with no additional debugging systems, was free of viral infections, had not spam marketing, and was “child safe” (although ladies were a little spooked by it).
All in all the 2.0 version doesn’t seem like a real improvement to me.
Deleting quote tags … is that plagiarizing?
Must attend to large cup of coffee now.
Recently found this rather blatant copy-and-past theft:
facebook.com/note.php?note_i … 0879296412
is evidently stolen from:
writedirections.com/writein30days.php
“S.J. Johnson” advertises herself to be a #1 Best Selling author (by what sales list?). All her books are kindle editions on Amazon and the reviews of them are by the same three people.
The original author of the work has been contacted…
The FB “author” has numerous notes directly lifted from other people’s work, all with her own name on them. Either she has no regard for giving credit to others or she’s a lousy thief.
As I have no life whatsoever I have been looking for examples of S.J. Johnson’s work to see if her Kindle books do suffer from plagiarism. (Like a disease or condition.) No luck.
I mean if you can’t knock out a thousand words on writing a book in thirty days followed by years of revisions, self doubt and hard drive failures is it to be expected that your other work has similar origins ?
A credit isnt too much to ask if you read the original posting.
Paul
Don’t forget to add a new Scrivener link on that page under the heading:
Writing Software for Windows
-karen
Was her work readable? What I am guessing to be her own prose in “her” Facebook notes is grammatically poor. That’s another tip-off for stolen passages.
I’ve hear back from a few of the original authors I emailed yesterday. Three of them either contacted her directly or just reported the theft to FB. One of the posts even remains in the first person as advice from a best-selling author’s book on craft. Amazing. I’m not one to use internet clichés, but this definitely qualifies as an Epic Fail.
Just a thought on how/why this one individual might have done this: It might be that the content was copied for “personal” use. That it was copied to a public place might have been an oversight. Many people innocently believe that anything that requires them to login is secured and protect from others.
Or I could be trying to hard to find a way to excuse this.
Methinks you’re reaching for that, aye. 8) It could be the case, but several other indicators would suggest it’s not.
Her Notes seem to be intended to garner a response, so, yes, perhaps she meant them only to be to her “fans,” but that solicits the idea that she’s attempting to fool her fans into believing it is her own advice and not that of a dozen other writers…
In both of those two possibilities, it’s still literary theft. And that means no sympathy from me.
The first “clue” was FACEBOOK.
Any real author knows that if they are going to procrastinate they are going to come to these forums, and if they are not posting here, surfing youtube for a witty response to Vic-K, they are either rewriting the revised revision of their last revised revision that they just rewrote. That or they are busy drinking (insert favorite drink here) eating things they don’t remember putting in their mouths, and wondering what where first 30,000 words of their latest word vomit session originated from.
What author has time to play farmville, mafia wars, or tweet their latest bowel movement on a social networking site? They are to busy actually crafting their art.
Few innovate, some emulate, many just duplicate.
I hope this “thief” gets a bad case of facial Gonorrhea, and suffers a painful boil on their parts of the body they have to cover with clothes for every word stolen.
I hate “Xerox Authors” (duplicators).
You forgot the ® and ™.
I know an author who publishes, on average, 1-2 novels a year, numerous short stories, and is the editor of a fantasy magazine. She plays Farmville a lot. Myself, I haven’t cared for any video games since Tempest was new in arcades…
Even real authors spend time doing things other than crafting their art. I’m guessing so anyway. When I’m not writing, I help others craft their art, look over students’ work, and occasionally check out this forum to see if there’s an announcement for 2.0. If there’s a life beyond words or research, I’m not privy to it. 8)
In the case of literary theft, worthy time is spent calling in authorial authority.
If your work has been stolen, contact the hosting provider for the website containing the stolen work and request a take down, giving the URL of the page containing your work, and the valid copyright claim.
Just be sure that the offending page isn’t using fair use. But a wholesale copy and paste would hardly be fair use.
This suggestion is of course, if you want the page gone. If you want a different route, then you may contact the owner of the site directly. If you want damages as well, you should contact an IP attorney.
The take down notice the the hosting provider is useful for the flagrant infringers, though. Nice, neat, and fast.
I might hire some headless Geek Guru (or one that may appear like the opposite gender on these forums) and ask them nicely (bribery with large amounts of beer and flattery) and see if they can’t poison the DNS for the offending page and repoint it to something more appealing like fornication with livestock or maybe to a page with a list of Glee back epsicodes.
Revenge is best served cold, I would serve mine frozen…
Indeed, fair use does not at all cover verbatim use of another’s work with one’s own name attached.
Nothing of mine is involved in this case. I merely acted on my own to track down the authors whose work was illicitly used. Several have acted in this matter and my payment has been several thank yous. The power of a thank you is sometimes extensive.
Beer and flattery are also good payments…
The former works best when Y chromosomes are involved. The latter for the double X.
Oh dear! 
Sexist Jaysen.
I`m wondering if Mrs Snort or dahghditor read your postings. Hopefully, that is the case.
One wonders, if boy, could be recruited to video the event, and post it on YouTube. Twould be like an afternoon at the Colosseum
Take care Mr Jaysen! I would, if I was you! 
Fluff
The issue is “beer” If that was “liquor” or “alcohol” then the Y would no longer have a higher interest then the double X.
Think about it. Why else to most beer adds feature scantily clad, very young, double Y, while most liquor adds feature vacations and social events?