Under a storm of negative publicity over acts of plagiarism and jaw-dropping ignorance of copyright law, Cook's Source magazine has been hounded into oblivion. Let that stand as two warnings: if you publish, you need a basic understanding of copyright; and, in the internet age, that presumed non-entity on the other end of your emails just might be able to conjure up a horde of rampaging barbarians faster than a Capital One commercial.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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A harsh lesson learned...perhaps. If she had only lifted one person's recipe, this would be an overly harsh punishment, perhaps. But it looks as though perhaps there was a regular practice rather than a one-time oversight. And the self-serving justification is still there, suggesting that she hasn't learned. Wishing that Monica Gaudio had "given her a chance" is an effort to put the blame on Gaudio, who clearly did give Cooks Source a chance, and was treated very condescendingly and rudely in reply.
What I hope is that other small time publishers learn about this and take heed. I'm sure there are plenty out there who don't have a good grasp of copyright law, and even more who have no idea what it means to be the subject of a viral internet story.
In general, I prefer to see business people shamed into better behavior, rather than driven business altogether. Even if, from the sound of things, this precarious, low-circulation publication wasn't exactly the model of consumer necessity ....
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