No Compassion for Plagiarists

Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I'm talking about online plagiarism with blogs. There's even a blog about plagiarism, not surprisingly called Dan Brown? In the business world, there's the recent example of Raytheon CEO William Swanson who has admitted outed by a blogger). I have a long-held belief that you should regard anything you put on a website as literally being in the public domain, no matter what copyright notices or conditions on use you might attach to it. People will steal it or otherwise use it without recognition of the originating source as these stories indicate. So anything you view as valuable to you, don't put it on the internet. Writing in New York Magazine, David Edelstein has a thoughtful Steve Rubel and Creative Commons license that applies to this blog make any difference? And how would that really apply when I claim intellectual property ownership over my original writing, not that of others that I may cite under fair use, such as in this post? Just asking. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: