Comments | paksenarrion2: When Magazine Editors don't understand the meaning of the word plagarism

paksenarrion2

When Magazine Editors don't understand the meaning of the word plagarism

Nov 04, 2010 11:59

Cooks Sources magazine lifted an article from iladore and published it in their magazine and on their website.
(
After the first couple of emails, the editor of Cooks Source asked me what I wanted )

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zinnea November 4 2010, 19:47:19 UTC

Wait...they stole an article for DISNEY?

Oh ahahahahahahahahaahahahaahah.

Seriously.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Good for Monica for standing up for herself. And Dear The Internet, this is one of the times when I love you very much.

...Disney. Haha.

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 20:25:27 UTC

Seriously. You do not want ten tons of Mouse Hammer coming down on your head.

And Paule Deen has laywered up aleady. I wonder how a butter enema is going to feel? yes, I went there....

zinnea November 4 2010, 21:40:05 UTC

I don't know if I hate you or love you for that mental image but I can't unsee it in either case.

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 22:14:25 UTC

When someone mentioned Paula Deen, my mind immediately went there so I had to spread the painlove.

Spread-haha....

I don't know if I ever mentioned this but I love your icon.

and *face palm*

That should be lawyered up. Posting from work means major typos...

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pgh_anarchist November 4 2010, 19:50:30 UTC

I go to school and the internet blows up...

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 20:29:14 UTC

I am at work-not working-and being totally entertained by this.

Honestly, this is the kind of stupid I love to see featured at sf_drama. No -isms or wank, other than rampant stupidity that could have been prevented if only the featuree had just used the brain that they were born with. Information-it's not hard to learn and absorb.

pgh_anarchist November 4 2010, 21:40:37 UTC

I learned way back in English Comp 1, thou shalt not plagarize. ALWAY source your work. I mean this is dummies 101 and this woman is an Editor? Also, as an editor, is it not their job to proofread/correct? I certainly didn't think it was copy and paste articles from websites without asking the original author.

This is one of the most entertaining posts I've read in days. I'm really enjoying this, and hoping to catch it on the news.

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 22:19:23 UTC

If you are just copying a recipe-not really an actionable cause but the articles and pictures? Definitely copyright infringement.

And to do it to Disney of all places? Wow, this woman must have been living in a cave in outer Mongolia to not have heard what Disney does to people that steal from them. I almost (but not quite) feel sorry for her. I mean it isn't like she is some teeny bopper newbie to the Internet for feck's sake.

And yes, this is so very entertaining. Stupid that is not filled with -isms and slurs. Just lots of good clean stupid.

suzannemarie November 4 2010, 19:58:28 UTC

To be pedantic, it's not plagiarism so much as copyright infringement. Which is actually even worse because the mistake that the editor is making regarding copyright is so basic that it's something that anyone would learn within approximately one week to one month of being in publishing. I can't decide whether she's really that stupid or whether she thought she could bluff her way through on something that stupid. Given the number of articles stolen, one begins to tilt toward stupid.

It is a head scratcher no matter how you look at it.

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 20:23:57 UTC

Very true.

Although in looking at some of the links posted on the facebook page discussion board, it does look like she is taking articles from other sources and reworking them-which I think fits plagiarism better than copyright infringement. I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV or the Internet) so I may be wrong. But either way? 30 years in the business and she fails this hard? Yikes.

But the photos? Definitely copyright infringement all the way.

kaymyth November 4 2010, 20:05:12 UTC

Hmm, a particularly interesting example of the breed specialus snowflakeus entitlementus. Notice how the predator attempts to intimidate its prey into submission, completely unprepared for the herd to come together and protect its own.

/NatGeo Mode

:D

paksenarrion2 November 4 2010, 20:27:34 UTC

I don't get it. Really? I guess she figured she had already stolen from the big ones like Martha Stewart and Disney so some small Internet Blogger was no big deal.

Never underestimate the power of a blogger. We will smite you with our keystrokes and make you wish you were back in the dark ages. Before Dan Quayle invented the Internet.

ducky01 November 4 2010, 20:34:07 UTC

I "liked" them on FB long enough to post a comment. Bunch of thieving jerks.