Copy cat

I just read someone's blog post on the Harvey Milk movie. He or she lifted a whole paragraph about Dan Nicoletta from my blog - word for word. Believe me, my left eyebrow was as high as it could get by the time I finished reading the post.

Positive: Someone deems my words worthy enough to quote it. Negative: I don't get credit. And another thing: I have no idea who the blogger is.

It's not knowing the blogger that kinda bugs me - not the fact that he/she copied from me. I'm used to seeing other people, mostly kids, post LG stuff that they probably found out because I posted it on the LG.org forum. In those instances, I didn't mind because the people posting the "news" in their blogs or HSM websites are people I interact with on the forum.

Examples:

• I once posted a link in the forum pointing to a wee article about LG partying. This is something you won't see in a Google alert ... it was in a gossip BLOG. It made me chuckle to see the report afterwards in at least 3 HSM websites. What's funnier is that at least one of those posts got the report wrong because he or she didn't read the original article ... just the excerpt I posted in the forum.
• Early this month, some kids wanted an mp3 copy of what LG sang in the "At Jesus' Side" video - so they can listen to it from their ipods. I made an mp3, PM'd them the download link and placed Happy Song in the subject. Guess what - a lot of kids now call it the Happy Song... even those who made their own mp3s of the song.
• Somewhere in YouTube are videos using behind the scenes pictures I found from a film crew blog and whose link I posted on the board. The film's director didn't like those pics circulating even before the movie's ready so the original blogpost with the pictures, along with my post on the board, were taken down. However, a number of kids already saw my link before the post was taken down and saved copies of the pictures.

Now the last one I'm not really comfortable with because the owner of the pictures actually e-mailed me about not wanting them posted anywhere. I promised him I won't and I am keeping it. The problem is, I have no control over the kids who have made their copies before the pictures were taken down.