That Looks Familiar

These people have stolen chunks of Leon’s interview with The Delgados, edited the responses, inserted their own questions, and passed it off as their own work. And they then have the cheek to thank Leon, rather than credit him.

I don’t get why someone would do this - why not link to the full interview on this site if they liked it, or drop Leon a line asking if they can republish it?

It’s not just bad form to nick someone else’s content, either: The Delgados agreed to be interviewed by Leon, they don’t even know that someone is publishing their answers to questions they were never asked. If you see what I mean.

Update: The contents of this site are now licensed under a Creative Commons licence, specifically the awkwardly named Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0. Say what? Here’s the basics:

1. Attribution: The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit.
2. Noncommercial: The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees may not use the work for commercial purposes — unless they get the licensor’s permission.
3. No Derivative Works: The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform only unaltered copies of the work — not derivative works based on it.

Quite restrictive, but a lot nicer than copyright (which, when push comes to shove, we retain over everything on here anyway!) I previously thought that putting something like this on the site was pretty ridiculous, but if people are going to nick our stuff, we might as well make it clear what we consider acceptable.

Law geeks might like to read the licence in full.

Update II, an apology: Some of the above comments are unfair: our ire should have been directed at a contributor to the This Is Not TV site, one Craig Scott, rather than the site itself. Emma Farrer, who maintains TINTV, accepted the interview in good faith, not knowing that the supposed author was a plagiarist, and has now apologised and removed the offending page. Thanks very much for that Emma, and my apologies for jumping the gun.

Posted at 12am on 28/01/03 by Jack Mottram to the web category.
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