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3 comments:
Sweet merciful Goddess... the plaigerism post is now up at ms. druid priest shamen teacher's website!!! You're not the only one she's blindly ripping content from... she's attempting to aggregate one of the Druid Podcasts...
she also has a few notices around the site stating
"all content (c) _______"
I would like to believe this is someone who means well and merely has no clue as to how copyright works...
Yes I know, I looked to see if it turned up there!
I have emailed her to ask her to remove the feed.
I emailed the lady who owns the site and got the following reply:
"I am really sorry, I had no idea they looked like my own posts, and that was most certainly not my intention - I thought there was a link and a credit to each post showing the source. I have removed all posts and taken the site down while I sort it out. I am not that clever with this sort of thing and had used some sort of add on with Wordpress to show posts from blogs I liked. It was a friend who sat down with me and set it up to bring back info from various sites; it was certainly never my intention to plagiarise."
All sorted, and I shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that it was malicious.
So, like you said, well-meaning but mistaken.
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