tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post2722340721330225685..comments2024-01-23T18:21:17.066+00:00Comments on Surroundings: The Naivety of PlagiarismRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-17705315893553884332007-10-11T17:05:00.000+01:002007-10-11T17:05:00.000+01:00I stole all my poems from some site or other. I wo...I stole <I>all</I> my poems from some site or other. I would apologise, but can't remember where the hell I found them ...Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-45434884068104251272007-10-03T16:27:00.000+01:002007-10-03T16:27:00.000+01:00I can't remember the name of the person. He stole ...I can't remember the name of the person. He stole an early version of that poem from an internet workshop. I should have kept a copy of his poem, but instead I complained to the site administrator and the site suddenly disappeared.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-25792452431613435612007-10-03T10:14:00.000+01:002007-10-03T10:14:00.000+01:00Who had stolen the one fom the chapbook, Rob? Perh...Who had stolen the one fom the chapbook, Rob? Perhaps you should post both versions on the blog, as a warning, and to make the point that a fine poem can be easily ruined.Matt Merritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-58601732460531502382007-10-03T07:31:00.000+01:002007-10-03T07:31:00.000+01:00Maybe it could be a way of gaining a new audience ...Maybe it could be a way of gaining a new audience - a web magazine called "Poems and Porno" - except that poems published wouldn't be the expected pseudo-erotic stuff. The only cost of gaining the huge increase in readership would be pop-ups, trojans, viruses, and compromised bank passwords.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-28351085745008186522007-10-03T00:10:00.000+01:002007-10-03T00:10:00.000+01:00There's a Bizarro world out there. I'm still wait...There's a Bizarro world out there. I'm still waiting to find out, not why my poem was stolen (because it was so good, obviously), but why some thief thought it a good thing to steal for a porno site. I fear that even if I got the explanation, I wouldn't understand it.Richard Epsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318302030070884970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-43777499522635944302007-10-02T22:59:00.000+01:002007-10-02T22:59:00.000+01:00It's the insolence of that phrase - "ok to copy as...It's the insolence of that phrase - "ok to copy as my own" - that gets me. <BR/><BR/>If the writer of that phrase ever reads this: Did you write the poem? No. Therefore it is <I>not</I> OK to copy as your own. Not ever. Got it?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the stories, folks. I also had a poem stolen ("Your Eyes" published in <I>The Clown of Natural Sorrow</I>), but rewritten with a massive excess of modifiers and a touch of sentimental tosh thrown in. It just shows how easy it is to destroy a poem by adding a few words here and there.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-3467667443339441612007-10-02T19:14:00.000+01:002007-10-02T19:14:00.000+01:00That is very scary, Rob and the comments show that...That is very scary, Rob and the comments show that this is quite common - even scarier!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-67276858884960148862007-10-02T04:24:00.000+01:002007-10-02T04:24:00.000+01:00Ah, Andy, I just get 'poems about wisdom'!I once d...Ah, Andy, I just get 'poems about wisdom'!<BR/><BR/>I once discovered the title poem of my first book (a tight yet so-so sonnet) rejigged on the internet by a young, female, US poet. It seems she had been pwned on this - all her poems had been removed from the site, but a mirror remained. <BR/><BR/>She had evidently figured that her teacher / professor would know that the technical stuff in the poem would be beyond her and so she had rewritten it, lightly - removing a few rhymes and setting it out loosely, as an informal narrative piece, thus rendering it of very little interest at all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-34349850801773609512007-10-01T19:18:00.000+01:002007-10-01T19:18:00.000+01:00Visitors have been led to my poems page on the bas...Visitors have been led to my poems page on the basis of the following searches:<BR/><BR/>"rough sex poems"<BR/><BR/>and (alarmingly)<BR/><BR/>"apish sex".<BR/><BR/>The most common seems to be:<BR/><BR/>"poems about wisdom teeth"<BR/><BR/>or variations on that theme.<BR/><BR/>ABJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-23036185516328277812007-10-01T16:04:00.000+01:002007-10-01T16:04:00.000+01:00Rob, I recently found a poem of mine plagiarized o...Rob, I recently found a poem of mine plagiarized on a particularly noxious porno site. Every attempt to comment or contact the owner produced a hailstorm of pornographic pop-ups, my pop-up blockers notwithstanding, and I finally gave up, still completely baffled by why <I>that</I> guy wanted to steal <I>that</I> poem for <I>that</I> site. The motives of plagiarizers are as mysterious as the ways of the Lord.Richard Epsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00318302030070884970noreply@blogger.com