Crazy Meds' Copyright Violators' and Plagiarizers' Halls of Shame

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Copyright Violators' and Plagiarizers' Halls of Shame

People who think they can get away with this sort of thing can't. I'm on the lookout. Rather, Copyscape is doing it for me. There are correct ways to copy stuff from the web, and there are wrong ways. First let's look at some of the right ways of copying written works that don't violate copyright and/or piss me off.

It's fine and dandy to snag a fair use extract of a page and post it, preferably with credit. Here is a truly fine example of a fair use extract. Note how the author:

differentiated my text from hers
provided a link to the page from which it was quoted
and, while the quoted text from any single source far exceeded the commentary (an important criterion for fair use determination), the interactive nature of blogs is such that future commentary is possible, so I'd rather encourage that particular criterion to stretch somewhat when applied to blogs, fora, mailing lists, newsgroups and whatever other social interactive forms may follow.

I encourage people to print out med pages and bring them into their doctors' offices. I've received both positive feedback and good corrections of factual errors from doctors that way. Just so long as the URL of the page printed, or at the very least www.crazymeds.us appears on all of the printed pages.

Neither of these things require my permission. The former is covered by the Berne Copyright Convention. It's something anyone can do for material from any website. As for the latter in my disclaimer at the bottom of every single page on this site I already give blanket permission to print out a page or two to take to your doctor, as long as you're or anyone else will be reproducing that work.

It's quite another thing to do a wholesale copy of my pages and paste them in somewhere else and claim the words for one's own or give a vague description of "coming from a website I found." Either way it is illegal.

Let alone take great swaths of my work, barely within the fair use guidelines, make a small change here and there, and put them together and claiming the end product as one's own work. That is called plagiarism. The legality is dubious, although it does expose one to all sorts of civil action.

While I shall be taking action against anyone who violates my copyright, one way or the other, as soon as I or Copyscape finds it, I'm going to start posting it, in the Copyright Violators' Hall of Shame and Plagiarizers' Hall of Shame. See for yourself who is copying me now, riding my coattails and thinks so highly of me that they can't even write their own stuff, they just have to steal mine.

I'm just glad, for once, that the feds see it my way. Without eternal vigilance you know what will happen. They'll first steal from the super-rich rock stars and nobody will speak up because they aren't super-rich rock stars. Then they'll steal from super-rich movie studios and nobody will speak up because they don't own super-rich movie studios. Then they'll steal from struggling daily newspapers trying to make a profit by providing online content and nobody will speak up because they don't work at struggling daily newspapers. Then they'll steal from people like me and it will be too late because I've told everyone to piss off and finally bought that UNABOMBER shack like I kept writing I would. I already have the manual typewriter and a bunch of ribbons and correction tape.

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Otherwise, if you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or need to let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23 at gmail dot com Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail these days. The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is going to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one. You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the like. Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the domain name, and not the IP address. So I've been blacklisted because of the actions of others. Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the "crazy" and/or "meds." Or your question about a particular medication will set off spam flags. So the e-mail just wouldn't go through regardless. Sorry.

Hey, did you find this page all by itself through Google or some other search engine? Great! But to really appreciate the entire site, you need to start here.

Created Thursday, July 12, 2007

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011

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