Introducing CopyrightFail.com
By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 17th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping
Today I am proud to announce a brand new (little) sister site to Plagiarism Today, Copyright Fail.
The idea behind Copyright Fail is pretty simple, it’s a place to collect the links, quotes, images and other tidbits of copyright stupidity from across the Web.
I have been toying with the site, which hosted on Tumblr, since late March (shortly after I bought the domain live on the Copyright 2.0 Show) but it’s finally good enough to go (though it still may see some changes over the next few weeks).
On that note, I’d be interested in your stories and suggestions. I don’t plan to update this blog every day, just when I find amusing stories and get some great suggestions. Definitely feel free to email me any stories you recommend for a Copyright Fail.
I hope everyone enjoys the site and gets a good laugh or two from it.
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Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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I can remember a poster on Slate's fray…the Poems, to be exact. His nickname was Denny. He posted one of John Denver's songs with just a few words changed, and claimed he'd written it.
And it can't have been two weeks after this was pointed out to him that he took something from Robert Frost. It was hilarious. He spent two hours denying it was stolen.
If you have a link to that, I'd love to add it to the site
If you have a link to that, I'd love to add it to the site
I can remember a poster on Slate's fray…the Poems, to be exact. His nickname was Denny. He posted one of John Denver's songs with just a few words changed, and claimed he'd written it.
And it can't have been two weeks after this was pointed out to him that he took something from Robert Frost. It was hilarious. He spent two hours denying it was stolen.
If you have a link to that, I'd love to add it to the site
Sorry for taking so long to respond.
Those posts were reported to the editor at the time, and are long since deleted.
Just recently he was caught plagiarizing writers like Lazear-Ascher, and Meghan O’Rourke, and was finally banned from posting.