# The web is public domain? Thanks for the info, Cooks Source magazine! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487 "2010-11-04T17:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/101 "2010-11-05T20:36:56Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > Yah, I don’t care professionally either :), but the cash would be nice (since it’s the Holiday season and all…) > > I actually took a photo special for them on request - probably could have charged extra for that one. Live and learn… No need to give that away for free. So you did, basically, an assignment for them? Yeah, gotta charge for that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/102 "2010-11-05T21:05:18Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > What is it with all those idiotic posts over there saying things like “Cooks Source gave AIDS to Africa” and “Cooks Source takes single socks out of your dryer. Now you know.” I don’t do Facebook…is this just random trolling, or are they trying to load up a search engine, or is it just the usual lobotomized dumbasses? Some of them are funny. If I had the energy, I’d contribute something like: Cook’s Source’s dingo ate my baby, after stuffing him with green peppers and cooking him at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/103 "2010-11-05T22:33:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Some of them are funny. If I had the energy, I’d contribute something like: > > Cook’s Source’s dingo ate my baby, after stuffing him with green peppers and cooking him at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. I’m going to post that. After all, it’s in the public domain, so it’s as good as mine! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/104 "2010-11-05T22:36:39Z")
And it would serve me right, too! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/105 "2010-11-05T23:26:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Some of them are funny. My favorite is “Cooks Source cooks horse!” ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/106 "2010-11-06T00:55:15Z")
I’d love to be a fly on the wall there when the cease and desists and lawsuit summons start being served. Hmm… Would you serve a red wine or white with a subpoena? I’m thinking red. Sangria. Blood wine. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/107 "2010-11-06T01:03:04Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I’m going to post that. After all, it’s in the public domain, so it’s as good as mine! Be sure to charge him for the privilege of having you post it for him! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/108 "2010-11-06T01:32:26Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > My favorite is “Cooks Source cooks horse!” That is damn funny and I wish I’d thought of it. Of course, I can just tell everyone I did… ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/109 "2010-11-06T07:32:03Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > People steal other people’s work all the time, but you rarely get a plagiarist writing to her victim and saying that she should pay the thief for the privilege of being stolen from. Ah, the old _Daily Mail_ defence. They got caught lifting the work of a policeman. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/110 "2010-11-07T01:30:29Z")
Reading about this debacle makes me want to make a nice [Schadenfreude Pie](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/) and enjoy a slice of it while reading the comments… but I’d be worried they might steal Scalzi’s recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/111 "2010-11-07T07:49:02Z")
Is there anything Scalzi and/or his daughter can’t do? > [@](#): > > Athena mixes the pie filling ingredients while plotting the downfall of all those who oppose her. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/112 "2010-11-07T13:00:37Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > I’m going to post that. After all, it’s in the public domain, so it’s as good as mine! Before you do, make it read as if it’s Old English and charge him for the ‘editing’. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/113 "2010-11-07T13:03:48Z")
> [@bup](#): > > She’s started a [new facebook page](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Mag/159072764128073), because internetters were so mean to the old one. > > I kinda think she’s not getting this. From that new page… > [@](#): > > Any untruthful post will be considered libelous ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/114 "2010-11-07T18:49:11Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > From that new page… > > > [@](#): > > > > Any untruthful post will be considered libelous Apparently their grasp of copyright law is matched only by their grasp of libel law! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/115 "2010-11-08T00:50:43Z")
She’s got yet another page on Facebook, under “I Love to Cook.” She’s getting testy now. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/116 "2010-11-08T02:21:56Z")
Wow, I’d have already cashed out all accounts and moved to a small island. Maybe somewhere in the Caribbean, or, farther away, like near Fiji. Far away from the folks who are about to swoop in and drain your soul. ---
**Author:** ![Mom-of-Andrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mom-of-Andrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mom-of-Andrew)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/117 "2010-11-08T04:07:36Z")
Story hits another continent-- article in the Sydney Morning Herald [http://www.smh.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/the-cook-and-the-thieves-a-win-for-internet-ip/20101108-17jmf.html](http://www.smh.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/the-cook-and-the-thieves-a-win-for-internet-ip/20101108-17jmf.html) In one of the better, and more colorful, desciptions of the brouhaha, SMH’s John Birmingham writes, > [@](#): > > “As so often happens these days, an instant jihad spooled up and swarmed the doofus in chief, in this case Cooks Source editor Judith Griggs. The Armies of Snark marched across Twitter and descended on the magazine’s Facebook page leaving thousands of cruel, but apt, messages.” I just can’t stop watching. What a lovely trainwreck. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/118 "2010-11-08T04:33:20Z")
> [@Archergal](#): > > She’s got yet another page on Facebook, under “I Love to Cook.” She’s getting testy now. That page is more than half 9/11 glurge. I mean, if we NEVER FORGET then how can we possibly NEVER FORGET to leave her alone and stop hacking her Facebook? NOUN VERB 9/11! Also, leaving snarky comments on her wall is hacking. But the commentators (hackers) still have some barbs: > [@](#): > > **I Love to Cook** Anyone have a good recipe for something new to do with beef? No hacker answers please.) > 9 hours ago > > **Tommy Danger** You can steal it from the orphan down the street and claim it’s yours, and send them a bill for it. I like doing that. She’s also exhibiting classic signs of being whacked-out on the Internet. This is called ‘[lurkers support me in email](http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Lurkers_Support_Me_in_Email)’: > [@](#): > > **I Love to Cook** And thanks to everyone that has messaged me privately with their concrn and support. You are blessed, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. No names, just the implication that if we doubt her we’re Very Bad People. And hackers, possibly on steroids. NEVER FORGET! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/119 "2010-11-08T06:10:03Z")
This just doesn’t stop being funny. I almost feel a little sad for her, but I have a hard time coming up with significant empathy for someone who clearly refuses to meet reality face to face. > [@](#): > > **Raun Savage** If you follow through the above video to YouTube, it takes you the original owners video, YET AGAIN taking something which is not hers and publishing it as so. But then again, YouTube user reelmensch could very well BE Judy/Judith/Confused… purported to be gay man. If the YouTube channel is Judy’s, we get an intimate look into her demented life though “her” personal videos. Disclaimer - if you do not think reelmensch is Judy/Judith, please do not troll that page. Just an observation. > > **I Love to Cook** It’s a cute video of a schnoodle. What’s wrong with you? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487/120 "2010-11-08T06:44:44Z")
I sincerely doubt any of the new pages are legit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-web-is-public-domain-thanks-for-the-info-cooks-source-magazine/559487.md?page=7)