In the interests of full disclosure, my work computer locked me out. It's tragic, really. But then I got to read this.

[profile] illadore posts Copyright Infringement and Me, sharing the heartwarming story of an editor of great (three decades!) experience in the publishing world who kindly and generously picked up one of her articles for her groundbreaking and experimentally-spelled magazine Cooks Source, and when [profile] illadore's ingratitude for her generosity was expressed via email, Judith Griggs politely but firmly explained the astonishingly simple legal statutes covering copyrighted articles found on a copyrighted page on the internet. And also has some truly astounding editing advice about the article.

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Copyright Follies by [personal profile] nihilistic_kid

The Stupidest Thing an Editor With Three Decades of Experience Has Said About the Web Today by John Scalzi

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ETA: Oh, look, it's Boing-Boing: Today's web justice driveby: Cooks Source Magazine

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Cooks Source Facebook Wall - might be a few people there a bit stroppy about the entire thing.

Cooks Source Facebook Discussions, hey, has anyone gotten the cooks-source-bukkkake to load?

List of Cooks Source article sources. Please add more and hey, interesting list here: Paula Dean, NPR, WebMD, WeightWatchers, Martha Stewart, Recipes Today that's owned by Disney, CNN....

Okay, if the eventual goal is guaranteed professional and personal immolation destined to be cherished by the eternal memory of the internet throughout history, post to youtube videos of torturing your goddamn cat, okay (please do not actually do this)? 4chan will take care of it for you, three days, four days tops, and then you at least get the biggest pizza party of your life. You really don't need to create an entire business enterprise with an elaborate and strangely mesmerizing chain of events to get it done.

Dude, you invoked Martha fucking Stewart. And Disney. There will be no pizza. I'm not sure there will be like, air when they're done.

Again, that's Cooks Source, no apostrophe, and Judith Griggs, that's two g's.

Yeah, I really needed this.
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From: [personal profile] facetofcathy Date: 2010-11-04 07:26 pm (UTC)
I saw this on my Network this morning, and now it's on the Guardian and Washington Post websites.

And Neil Gaiman's twitter, which might have a bigger readership than either of the above.

It makes me wonder how many publications of this sort are doing some internal checking right now. Stupid is rarely unique.
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From: [personal profile] cofax7 Date: 2010-11-04 07:36 pm (UTC)
It's awesome and horrifying at once! And ENTIRELY SELF-INFLICTED.
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From: [personal profile] obsession_inc Date: 2010-11-04 07:46 pm (UTC)
Today, I love the internet SO MUCH.
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From: [personal profile] gblvr Date: 2010-11-04 07:55 pm (UTC)
I am amused -- the 'Go Fug Yourself' girls have chimed in on Twitter.

(The rest of it is appalling however -- where do we suppose Ms. Griggs went to school that they taught her plagiarism and copyright violation are okay as long as it's from the Internet?)
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From: [personal profile] reginagiraffe Date: 2010-11-04 08:15 pm (UTC)
OMG, she is so entirely completely and utterly *fucked*.

*is very amused*
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From: [personal profile] lydiabell Date: 2010-11-04 08:24 pm (UTC)
Nothing about this whole clusterfuck makes me happier than the fact that people are using Cooks Source's own Facebook page as a place to compile all the articles that CS has ripped off.

Obviously I hope they're screencapping like mad.
edited at: Date: 2010-11-04 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] princessofgeeks Date: 2010-11-04 09:15 pm (UTC)
it is truly epic.
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From: [personal profile] less_star Date: 2010-11-04 09:51 pm (UTC)
Wow, that's hilarious! That snotty email, just wow!
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From: [personal profile] out_there Date: 2010-11-04 09:59 pm (UTC)
It's amazing how Eic Fail on the internet can make my day so much brighter! "Oh, what a maroon!" may be my favourite new phrase.
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From: [personal profile] nagasvoice Date: 2010-11-05 04:26 am (UTC)
I think I commented over on lj that, in simple language, this is what I predict:
*waving* toot toot go down the hole!

From: [identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:32 pm (UTC)
Um, HTML meltdown in progress?

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:42 pm (UTC)
Fixed. My Boing-Boing was boinged.

From: [identity profile] akavertigo.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:43 pm (UTC)
Sounds sexy tricky..

From: [identity profile] droolfangrrl.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:39 pm (UTC)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/cooks_source_masters_new_recip.html

"Cooks Source magazine masters new recipe: How to annoy the Internet"

From: [identity profile] huzzlewhat.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:41 pm (UTC)
Wow. As an editor of great (almost three decades!) experience, I feel qualified to say that Judith Griggs has absolutely no idea what she's talking about. And sincere thanks to her, by the way, for making editors look bad.

And yeah, I had to edit this to correct the grammar. Ironic, huh? :-)
edited at: Date: 2010-11-05 03:12 am (UTC)
Really, all I can do is laugh at this. How to destroy your career and reputation in less than 24 hours...

And their server is now down. Awesome.

[edited to add: Twitter is overloaded too. Coincidence?]
edited at: Date: 2010-11-04 07:48 pm (UTC)

From: [identity profile] reddwarfer.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 07:59 pm (UTC)
I have to lol and lol hard.

From: [identity profile] squigglepie.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 08:09 pm (UTC)
Oh wow this made me very pleased to follow along... nothing like good schadenfreude to start off the day. :D

From: [identity profile] danegen.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 08:18 pm (UTC)
Oh, that is exquisite fail. Another link: Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/cooks-source-copyright-complaint).
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From: [personal profile] aurora Date: 2010-11-04 08:21 pm (UTC)
WOW. JUST WOW.

From: [identity profile] amireal.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 08:29 pm (UTC)
YOU'RE WELCOME! *G*

From: [identity profile] anjak-j.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 08:37 pm (UTC)
I LOLed a river. Seriously, the replies at [livejournal.com profile] nihilistic_kid's LJ...so funny.

*twitches*

From: [identity profile] prettybird.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 10:22 pm (UTC)
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/04/5409728-ye-olde-apple-pies-are-recipe-for-internet-hate-fest

From: [identity profile] jujuberry136.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 10:40 pm (UTC)
I can't believe anyone with 3 decades of experience would be stupid enough to admit to stealing another person's article without permission in writing. Isn't that "Covering Your Ass 101"?

I'm happy at the shitfest that's followed. Seems only fair.

From: [identity profile] procrastinator8.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 11:01 pm (UTC)
Thank you for this post, I have been ever so entertained following the story's development. I see the LA Times and Washington Post are on to it now.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/cooks_source_masters_new_recip.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2010/11/cooks-source-magazine-vs-the-web.html

From: [identity profile] yoiyami.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-04 11:12 pm (UTC)
I'm pretty astounded that the big name news articles are all sitting there going, well we don't know if this is true or not...
Hello! There are lists of the many, many people who have been cut-and-pasted. Are they doing any research at all? Each time the first comment or so has been pointing this out. Why is the average reader of these locations more informed than the reporter?

From: [identity profile] clari-clyde.livejournal.com Date: 2010-11-05 12:13 am (UTC)
Whoah, the fail is strong with this one. I like the tag you used for this. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to exercise their god-given right to use their intelligence.

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