I don't usually complain but I think I'm entitled to on this one occasion. Hopefully I won't make anyone feel uncomfortable or guilty because if you are a blogger who has done this you maybe didn't know or something. I don't know but I feel I need to point this out.
Recently, whilst looking at other blogs I found that someone had copied and pasted part of my blog onto theirs. I know this a recurring problem and you can read about a similar post at The Story Siren but I just thought I would speak up about it too. When I discovered this I was confused because surely if you are a blogger you would enjoy writing on your blog not just copy another one. I won't tell you which part(s) these bloggers copied and I won't say who it is because I don't think that it's fair but I will say you know who you are.
One of the pieces of text that had been copied had so OBVIOUSLY been copied it was almost a bit funny. There were the same spelling mistakes and titles and everything. I haven't copyrighted any of the text on this blog so technically you can copy and paste to your hearts content but at the end of the day I will find out and if I accidentally name a few names then I am sorry but I don't know how else to deal with it. I put many hours of my time into this blog I don't think it's fair to take credit for sombody elses work.
I only wanted to keep this short.
6 comments:
I don't know if one of the people you mean is me, but I copied your Conact Me bit onto my new book blog because I didn't know what to say. I'm really sorry, I'll go and change it so it's not the same as yours anymore.
By the way, my book blog is: http://themilelongbookshelf.blogspot.com
Sorry!
Hi Amber,
I wasn't aware of this but thank you for owning up and changing it. Sorry if you thought I was directing this at you :)
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Oh my! Was it me? Please tell me! I think I copied the rules to an award from your blog a while back...but I mentioned that it was from your blog! Sorry, was it me?
I've changed it now, Sasha. :D
It really stinks that someone did this to you! But you were very wise to make mention of it, yet keep the person's identity secret. It just shows how awesome and classy you are!
I've had this happen to me as well a few times, and it always annoys me. The whole point of having your own blog is to show YOUR opinions and views, right? I agree with Shalonda though. Not mentioning names was a very classy move :)
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