Lyle Johnson
3/28/2007 1:12:00 PM
On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Peter Szinek wrote:
> At the top of the webdotdev.com pages, there is a photo of the
> 'author' with an 'About the Author' link. Hint: it's neither my
> photo, nor is it about me. It also states: "Written by Phil
> Harrison". resp "Written by Satish Talim".
>
> I hope this is just some kind of a joke, or an early attempt to play
> April fools or something. Of course I am happy if someone picks up
> my articles, but not that happy if he states he wrote them...
>
> Could please someone (e.g. Satish, if you are reading this) explain
> this to me? Maybe I just misunderstood something and this is some
> cool new web4.0 trend which everybody knows except me - if it's so,
> please tell me about it, I'd be eager to hear your opinion on this
> matter.
It's not a cool new trend -- people have been plagiarizing other
peoples' writing for a long time.
I would like to believe that it's just a mistake, but it's much more
likely IMO that it is exactly what it appears to be -- someone has
set up a site to "republish" articles under the site's banner, in
violation of your copyright. Don't know what, if any, legal recourse
you have.