Maybe I Should Sue MySpace for $30 Million Too
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A MySpace user — who identifies herself simply as a "20-year female in a relationship," has apparently plagiarized an entire blogpost of mine without permission, trackback, citation or attribution.
How rude.
Now since I refuse to sign up for MySpace myself, I have no direct way to contact the apparent plagiarizer. Which I suppose might be a good thing if I were a (hetero-)sexual predator, but is not such a neat-o idea when I'm the apparent victim of an intellectual property tort.
Clearly MySpace has breached a duty, of some kind, to "protect" me from compositional "predators" like this young woman apparently is. Surely MySpace could have instituted safeguards, of some kind, to prevent this apparent malfeasance. Undoubtedly MySpace should have foreseen, somehow, that illegal acts by third parties might occur via its site, even if established tort law says otherwise. Certainly MySpace showed a "greedy" indifference to me and should be held liable, somehow, even if "greed" is not actually a tort.
I want my $30 million.
Need more? At the bottom of the MySpace page in question — and I'm guessing the bottom of all MySpace pages, is the following:
©2003-2006 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright fraud? That's a federal offense.
Make that $300 million.
(For those who are wondering, I discovered the plagiarism via the embedded links to other posts of mine, which of course show up via a routine Technorati search.)
UPDATE: The young lady has apologized in the comments below.
How rude.
Now since I refuse to sign up for MySpace myself, I have no direct way to contact the apparent plagiarizer. Which I suppose might be a good thing if I were a (hetero-)sexual predator, but is not such a neat-o idea when I'm the apparent victim of an intellectual property tort.
Clearly MySpace has breached a duty, of some kind, to "protect" me from compositional "predators" like this young woman apparently is. Surely MySpace could have instituted safeguards, of some kind, to prevent this apparent malfeasance. Undoubtedly MySpace should have foreseen, somehow, that illegal acts by third parties might occur via its site, even if established tort law says otherwise. Certainly MySpace showed a "greedy" indifference to me and should be held liable, somehow, even if "greed" is not actually a tort.
I want my $30 million.
Need more? At the bottom of the MySpace page in question — and I'm guessing the bottom of all MySpace pages, is the following:
Copyright fraud? That's a federal offense.
Make that $300 million.
(For those who are wondering, I discovered the plagiarism via the embedded links to other posts of mine, which of course show up via a routine Technorati search.)
UPDATE: The young lady has apologized in the comments below.
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Posted by Kip on
22 June 2006
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