Fighting a losing battle against copyright

[almostwitty]

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[almostwitty]

In which case, she shouldn't have taken his surname. ;)

[anivair]

I have no problem with anything I post on facebook or anywhere else online being cut and pasted with no attribution. If I wrote a two sentence funny, I don't need credit. I just like that it was funny.

[almostwitty]

But unlike you, I dream of fame, if not fortune ;)

[ravenna_blue]

But part of the drawbacks to the current facebook/lj/tweetiverse culture is that stuff you type is posted all over the place. If you want your jokes copywrited, or you intellectual property safeguarded, musing in the internet isn't always the best way.

Maybe you could put a disclaimer on your blog/tweeter stating this is your intellectual property and would prefer being given credit.

[offensive_mango]

The world stole my joke about Paula Radcliffe/Hitler, but I feel ok about it since it was somewhat time-sensitive and wouldn't really make sense now.

[almostwitty]

What was that joke?

[offensive_mango]

It was:

Q. What's the difference between Hitler and Paula Radcliffe?
A. Hitler was willing to finish a race.

[almostwitty]

That's just taking the piss.

[almostwitty]

HyperHam, darling - your alter-ego on the public blog.

Do keep up, luv ;)

[twisted_times]

I have an ambivalent attitude to copyright. I'm all in favour of people being given due credit and, in the case of those people who make (or try to make) a living from their work, being paid for what they've produced, just as you'd pay a carpenter for a bookcase or an Accountant for the time they've spent sorting out your submissions to the Inland Revenue

[twisted_times]

Oops, should have added to the end of the first sentence, "I feel that copyright (and the enforcing of it) is a necessary evil so that artists can triumph."

D'oh! Editing fail! ><