22 Feb
2009
22 Feb
'09
10:14 p.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
This was an issue a couple of years ago. Now it's
back: the 10,000-word
article that I published on my personal web site in 2005 (and since took
down) is reprint IN FULL at
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Can anyone help?
Yes. Don't sweat it.
If you publish, people will take your work and use it, and often
claim it as their own. It may not be "the new way", but it is certainly
a reality. You may or may not have legal recourse, but in the end, you
can't stop it.
What I don't get is this: if I'm not publishing for pay, why would I
care? *Especially* if the reprint, republish, distribution, whatever
cites me?
If my goal is to promote knowledge and understanding, then the more
places it appears, the better. The only reason I can see that I'd want
to restrict distribution would be that I'm promoting my own ego.
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