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Copyright Violators' Hall of Shame

Now something that I am getting hot and bothered about is all the work of mine being stolen by some fat bastard named Bob Clarkson, better known as POPEYETHETURTLE over at Spark People.  Too lazy to create his own content he just blithely copies and pastes page after page of my work about neurological medications into his body of work, passing himself off as some sort of professor of pyschopharmacology.  Like far too many in academia today he's an instructor in Internet copyright violation and plagiarism, foisting stuff off either as his own work, his own research, or just lazily writing that he found it at various and sundry unnamed websites.  Here are the instances Copyscape and I could find:

• This first attempt at Effexor 101, where he interspersed some of his own writing with mine at the beginning of the post, falls in some gray area between plagiarism and copyright violation.  As it is one of the earlier thefts of my work he may have been more enthusiastic about what he was doing.

• He liked it so much that he did it again with Effexor 101 - All you need to know  All you need to know that it's pretty much the same as the first one, with just some more of the Effexor page copied into it.

• In Lexapro 101 he ran out of room for a complete copy of the Lexapro page, thus the text at the end of the post  was cut off mid-sentence.  The theft continues at Lexapro 102,  after which he then posts a bunch of entries from an unnamed blog, probably without consent, which add nothing at all to what I wrote.  This was probably done in a bogus attempt to add the commentary criterion to pass this off as a fair use extract by merging two pieces of stolen property together.

• In Xanax 101 the entire Xanax page is plopped in the middle of his post containing works stolen from other sources, along with plagiarized sections of the ever-popular benzodiazepines page.

• With Klonopin 101 stealing the entire Klonopin page wasn't enough.  So had to steal my page on Brand vs. Generic medications and yet another section from the benzodiazepines page.  So this page is a twofer, with two counts of copyright violation and one instance of plagiarism.

• What lesson plan from a self-aggrandizing, diabetic, bipolar fat-ass would be complete without a topic covering Zyprexa 101?  This time the Zyprexa page was split with someone else's work kludged in the middle of it.

• For his course on Lithium 101 - he just copied the entire lithium page.  My cites and all.  Sure, he gives credit to WebMD for copying their stuff, but not to me.  I doubt if WebMD will be too happy once they find out about his stealing their intellectual property.  This time his comments, brief as they were and embedded in the middle of the text, gave the impression that it was someone else's work.  Whose work is never mentioned.  But the one line is vague and could easily be misconstrued.

• He broke with his naming convention for Trazadone  - The Non Addicting Mood and Sleep Med.  Yet he still stole practically the entire Deseryl (trazodone) page  In a bad attempt to make it look less like my work he split the page and put the "Information from makers," or what I have as brand and generic names, FDA approved uses and off-label uses, the last of which never comes from the manufacturers dumb-ass, and put it after all the other information he stole.  I note that in spite of all the instances on the page, he can't spell trazodone, nor can he properly hyphenate "non-addicting."  At least he noted at the very top that "This is what I found on other web sites and through anecdotal experiences."  Hah!  It was one web site you rat bastard!  Mine.  And your so-called "anecdotal experiences" came from all the stuff I collected.  I bet Mr. Clarkson never used the word "anecdotal" in his life prior to reading Crazy Meds.

Damn, only nine that I can find.  One more and I could pursue criminal charges as well as civil action.  I'm sure there's at least one more on that site.  The question is, is it worth my time to join the site to try to find it?

The work he is doing there as a so-called "team leader" might be indicative of his overall lifestyle.  Copying large amounts of other people's text into his own posts to earn yummy "SparkPoints" is the online equivalent of sending one of his hefty sons to drive down the driveway to the mailbox to get his mail. 

If you feel strongly about intellectual property rights and have nothing better to do, let Mr. Clarkson know what you think about his being a copyright infringer.  You can reach him at rclarkson5@comcast.net  I've yet to receive a reply from anyone at Spark People regarding this issue.

Now we get to all of those morons who copy my works and use blogs and msn groups to redirect people to their immensely profitably sites.  Most use bits and pieces of my works taken by software for automatic redirection, so it's really funny to see the copyright statement amid the word salad on Google (in that I supposedly own all the content on their sites, as if I wanted it).  My name is almost as popular a search term as "crazy meds."  But there are also jackasses such as the guy who started the vastly popular group dedicated to online Effexor.   From the fourth paragraph on the entire page is a copy of the Effexor page, only with "Pill" substituted for Effexor.  I'll have to send a letter to Microsoft to complain about it.  I shall, but I should probably just let him get his hopes up for a little while longer.