Comments on: Lazy eye http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/06/28/lazy-eye/ I'm feeling pretty good about myself right about now. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:56:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Skippy http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/06/28/lazy-eye/#comment-1873 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:07:42 +0100 http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2007/06/28/lazy-eye/#comment-1873 Thom, sorry that this message has nothing to do with the topic, but I could not find a post on the relevant subject, with is Windows Home Server and your excellent review of the WHS beta at OSNews. Did you know that your OSnews article has been copied and published word for word at the Australian website smarthousecom.au? The address is http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Media_Centres/Industry/Q3X2Q8B6. While the publisher (David Richards, who is also the managing director of the site's publisher 4Square Media) has given you a byline alongside of his own name, I wonder if he actually approached you to ask permission to copy your article on his website? David Richards is very well known in Australia for plagiarism, by using the articles of other people (including many international news wire services and publications, often with only his name listed as author) in order to fill his website with content and thus increase the number of hits and therefore the amount of advertising revenue he makes. I have a feeling that he did not approach you or OSnews for permission, nor offer to pay you or OSnews any licensing or 'reprint' fee. Certainly the inclusion of your byline is not enough to justify his actions, especially when he has chosen not to link to OSnews but instead to print your entire article on his own website. Skippy Thom, sorry that this message has nothing to do with the topic, but I could not find a post on the relevant subject, with is Windows Home Server and your excellent review of the WHS beta at OSNews.

Did you know that your OSnews article has been copied and published word for word at the Australian website smarthousecom.au?

The address is http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Media_Centres/Industry/Q3X2Q8B6.

While the publisher (David Richards, who is also the managing director of the site’s publisher 4Square Media) has given you a byline alongside of his own name, I wonder if he actually approached you to ask permission to copy your article on his website?

David Richards is very well known in Australia for plagiarism, by using the articles of other people (including many international news wire services and publications, often with only his name listed as author) in order to fill his website with content and thus increase the number of hits and therefore the amount of advertising revenue he makes. I have a feeling that he did not approach you or OSnews for permission, nor offer to pay you or OSnews any licensing or ‘reprint’ fee. Certainly the inclusion of your byline is not enough to justify his actions, especially when he has chosen not to link to OSnews but instead to print your entire article on his own website.

Skippy

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