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Re:A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" by cs_1 on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @07:25PM (#1912358)
> Maybe "she" deserves a serious wake-up call, but "they" most certainly do not.

Being a two-person operation is probably why they ripped off most if not all of their content.

"Craftier Internet denizens started to research more of Cooks Source's publications, discovering that other articles could be lifted from The Food Network, Martha Stewart, NPR and even Disney."

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/299928

Not just articles, but also photos, discovered with TinEye.

Re:A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" by studer on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:07PM (#1912479)
"Because the writer in question had a copyright on her website where the article can be found, the content of the website is under copyright law."

Ouch. Surely there must be a better source than some junk written by a clueless "digital journalist" with the sole purpose of flooding search engines?

Re:A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" by cs_1 on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:24PM (#1912531)
Wade through at your leisure.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic...

Same primary source regardless of what outlet covers it.

NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/11/05/131091599/the-...

Economist: "A host of Facebook and other denizens have traced over 100 other articles that have appeared in the magazine to The Food Network, NPR, Martha Stewart, Sunset, and others. A Google Docs spreadsheet maintains the list."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/internet_sham...

The list:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmTaIPHPnkSedGFhbHo...

Over 160 entries just from recent issues that people could find copies of.

Re:A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" by jimmyjim on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @10:02PM (#1912719)
Out of curiosity, how do you suppose that spreadsheet was created?

How would one go about finding the sources en masse from a set of articles? What tools would be used?

Re:A Follow-Up to "The Web is Public Domain" by roel_v on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:04AM (#1913250)
Google?