Well I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the replies I’ve received not just via comments on this here blog, but through family and friends who have read my post My Life in Motion, Adoption: Back2goforward. My post even manage to show up on another bloggers site. I chose to share with those who care to indulge with me, my thoughts and feeling at times, and this is the first time I’ve shared something so close to my heart, and it leaves me with a little bit of a bad taste. While I haven’t been blogging long at all I’ve met some wonderful people, and have learned more or less there are some simple rules to abide by. Check out this here
copyright law 12 dos and donts
I won’t lie when I first realized that someone had taken enough interest in my story to write a post of their own expressing their thoughts on my post I was happy, and even responding by commenting and saying hello, I didn’t bother to check out how much the person had copied and paste, until I commented a second time on the post, when I realized the author practically copied the entire post, about 92% of my post was copied and paste, which I feel was not really needed for the author to capture the essence of my post. The author of the blog basically wrote an intro talking about a story she found elsewhere added my link then pasted a majority of my post. Nope she did not quote nor shorten it up in any manner. The author ended it with a brief comment and posed a question to her readers. What author ends up is with 88 words which are hers and 851 words which is my post. If you ask me, the author could have just left me a comment on my site. Lets not forget that if it weren’t for a plugin on wordpress that lets me know when another site links to mine I would have never known.
So my question to all and especially other bloggers, do you think the author copied too much, here’s the link for the site and post in question, or do you think I’m just being anal about the whole issue? For a copy of my post check out the first link in this post.
UPDATE:
A mere two hours after this post going live and sending a second email, which the one first went out on friday, and went unanswered, the author has removed the post, left a comment, and responded to my email.
This was never my intention as I had expressed in my unanswered email, that I just wanted my text to be used as excerpts not flat out copy and paste, and looked forward to evening doing a joint post with the author.
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Like I said on twitter: that is your entire blog! Everyone annotates a blog or two for readers to comment on, but my goodness!
Sorry you thought I copied too much from your post. Tell me how many of your words I am able to copy — with attribution, mind you!, and I will edit the post. You think I could have captured the “essense” of your post with a shorter quote — feel free to show me how to do that. Or if you would like me to take it all down, I will be happy to do so. I shared your words because I found them compelling and felt they would provide a great education for my readers, mostly adoptive parents, about some of the issues that arise in adoption. I did not, in any way, intend to offend.
Blogging is a public thing. When I blog I know that the words are really not “my own” anymore, and that I lose control over the use of those words. Most people who blog are pretty happy when their words are shared widely — why else do we blog except to reach an audience? Blogging is not a private diary, it is a public act. If you want to blog privately, you can do so by password-protecting all of your blog or some posts to your blog. Then you can control who reads by providing the password just to those who you want to be reading what your write. Until you do, you will probably find that at times you’re not very happy with what people do with your words. I know I haven’t always been pleased. But I’ve also never complained about it — after all, most anything that increases blog traffic is a good thing, since I appreciate it when I reach a wider audience.
First let me state that yes I was happy that my story drove you to post about it on your own blog, which is not the issue at hand. My issue was the amount that you copied and paste. I honestly don’t think it’s to hard to use excerpts from any site to capture a point one may be trying to make, with out using the entire piece. I’m not here to give a course on how that is done as it’s not my job sweet heart. Moving on to the fact that you state blogging is a public thing. That is only true in the fact that it’s available to whoever has an internet connection and wants to read it, but anything posted whether is be printed, online or even record is subjected to copyright laws. I’m not going to privatize my blog in any manner, but I will ensure that what ever I write is used in an appropriate manner which I am comfortable with. As for you not being please with what others have done with your words, I am sorry to hear that, but I for one will no look back and five years and say that, since I protect what I say and how it is used. Do be aware a sent you an email four days ago, to please curtail your post a bit and even offered to do a post with you in the near future yet I got no response. Yet today I posted this and sent you another email asking that you remove my content from your post, and in less than two hour not only did you reply to my email but you leave me a comment, and remove my content. Thanks and sorry that I protect my words. Do check back as I continue to tell my story.
I did not see your original email until today, when I checked after sitemeter led me to this post. Since your most recent email asked me to take down the content, that’s what I did. Good luck with your future blogging.
All I can say Malinda, is that you are wrong. I blog, and control my words and my ideas. You could have shared his words, and not his entire post…you could have just linked back and directed people to his site, by maybe creating a post talking about why this post inspired you, or i found a post that inspired me (link) and this is why…so many ways to express your own thoughts and still sharing his words, without completely pasting his post on your blog. After reading the post on his blog, as a reader what incentive do I have to visit his blog? No, Malinda you are wrong. I don’t consider your posts all of a sudden my property because you put them out there. I think you know this more than you led on.