I googled Robert Falls to get more info on today’s article by Cecil and found this site reprinting today’s column verbatim. I take it you’ll want to look into it.
It says “By Cecil Adams.” If you search any specific article Cecil wrote (I know this because I googled my IRL name once), there’s about twenty blogs that seem to have mirrored them. I don’t know what the legality of that is.
Ah, thank goodness. I came in afraid that Cecil was going around sticking up liquor stores again.
Thank you very much for reporting this. I’ve alerted the appropriate personnel.
“Author of lumber blog mysteriously assassinated.”
The “author” of that blog has the following details:
One of his prime qualifications is that he “reads over 20 books a year.”
Well.
I am impressed…I mean, 20 books. In one year. On business, biographies, and history. Like…wow.
I mean…do you think he signs autographs? Maybe he’ll sign my Erin Esurance Body Pillow! I’ll bet he might, if I asked nicely. That would be awesome.
:rolleyes:
Did you notice he didn’t even bother to copy the Slug cartoon to his own webspace, and is just hotlinking to the picture for column on the Washington City Paper website?
The guy seems to be involved in the lumber industry. Most of his blog’s posts are from Calculated Risk on the construction industry. He made one post about an interesting SD article relating to lumber, and now you guys are shitting on him. Why?
Because he stole an article from the Straight Dope.
He didn’t make a post about the article-he copied the entire article apparently without permission.
Yeah, I’m sure stealing one SD article doubled his readership from 3 to 6.
Because he violated the copyright by posting the whole column, and by posting the Slug cartoon the accompanies it. Do you think that should be permitted?
All of his posts have links to the original column at the very top.
That does not give him the right to post them on his blog. It is a violation of copyright if he does not get permission from the copyright holder.
Precedent, dude. How can you justify stopping some from stealing your work and not others?
Why would people bother to read the original if the entirety of it is republished without permission in his blog?
What do you guys care? He posted one SD article relating to the narrow focus of his blog, and you guys are all like “Oh no! Creative Loafing’s intellectual property, RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!” It’s not like he’s swiping every SD article and trying to jump ahead in Google’s rankings.
From what saw, he really doesn’t have a blog. He’s just a wannabe who copies articles he finds on the web and calls it a blog.
Let me guess; you think all information should be free, right?
That must be it.
Just looking at the link right now, I don’t see anything by Cecil, and the front page article has a Oct 13 date. Maybe it was taken down?