I was searching on the web for drop shot rigging and I came a crossed another site that was word for word what is on this site. Is that usual? Isn't that copywriting?

Please PM Glenn with the link.  Thanks!

If it was a post from a member, that is fairly common. Many of our members belong to other forums and many threads and posts are duplicated.

You mean someone is taking credit for my jokes somewhere else? NO POACHING,lol.

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I know some of Chris' stuff ws copied,...pobably published,lol

No its a full artical

You mean someone is taking credit for my jokes somewhere else? NO POACHING,lol.

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I know some of Chris' stuff ws copied,...pobably published,lol

I got a book coming out this fall ......ahhh crap .... did I just say that :-X ;D

Nothing is sacred on the internet. I have found many of my articles pasted on someone elses site, with the site owner acting as if they wrote it. Not much one can do about it.

I've copied segments of my own posts here and some deep GPS/Sonar/mapping series articles elsewhere, ran the segments through Google, and found the whole thing word for word elsewhere under several "author" names with minor editing removing reference to one of ya'll or a specific lake name, etc. It used to bother me, and I even joined clubs just to expose the plagerism by showing a link to my articles here and elsewhere proving an earlier posting date. I stopped doing that because I was immediately castigated by friends of the plagerizer, accused of lying, then banned as a troublemaker. You just don't go in there bothering the more popular writers in a club forum and come out being popular. But sometimes it comes back the other way. I've posted ideas that came up in the next month's issue of Bassmaster or another magazine a couple months later, for instance, widely accused of plagerizing them. I find it interesting I mostly post concerning current seasonal stuff or get into the next season so folks can be thinking about that, which always seems delayed in most magazines. Sight-fishing articles were coming out in them while I was already posting on pos-tspawn while post-spawn was deepening, but people don't read closely or process facts enough to see a wrong done in journalism. It doesn't really do a bit of good showing who wrote what first. It's actually quite complimentary for someone to adopt my writing as their own, apparently OK on the internet. It isn't affecting my pocketbook anyway, so I just move on.

Jim

I've copied segments of my own posts here and some deep GPS/Sonar/mapping series articles elsewhere, ran the segments through Google, and found the whole thing word for word elsewhere under several "author" names with minor editing removing reference to one of ya'll or a specific lake name, etc. It used to bother me, and I even joined clubs just to expose the plagerism by showing a link to my articles here and elsewhere proving an earlier posting date. I stopped doing that because I was immediately castigated by friends of the plagerizer, accused of lying, then banned as a troublemaker. You just don't go in there bothering the more popular writers in a club forum and come out being popular. But sometimes it comes back the other way. I've posted ideas that came up in the next month's issue of Bassmaster or another magazine a couple months later, for instance, widely accused of plagerizing them. I find it interesting I mostly post concerning current seasonal stuff or get into the next season so folks can be thinking about that, which always seems delayed in most magazines. Sight-fishing articles were coming out in them while I was already posting on pos-tspawn while post-spawn was deepening, but people don't read closely or process facts enough to see a wrong done in journalism. It doesn't really do a bit of good showing who wrote what first. It's actually quite complimentary for someone to adopt my writing as their own, apparently OK on the internet. It isn't affecting my pocketbook anyway, so I just move on.

Jim

Jim, I've had the same thing happen.  I've copied segments of my own posts here and some deep GPS/Sonar/mapping series articles elsewhere, ran the segments through Google, and found the whole thing word for word elsewhere under several "author" names with minor editing removing reference to one of ya'll or a specific lake name, etc. It used to bother me, and I even joined clubs just to expose the plagerism by showing a link to my articles here and elsewhere proving an earlier posting date. I stopped doing that because I was immediately castigated by friends of the plagerizer, accused of lying, then banned as a troublemaker. You just don't go in there bothering the more popular writers in a club forum and come out being popular. But sometimes it comes back the other way. I've posted ideas that came up in the next month's issue of Bassmaster or another magazine a couple months later, for instance, widely accused of plagerizing them. I find it interesting I mostly post concerning current seasonal stuff or get into the next season so folks can be thinking about that, which always seems delayed in most magazines. Sight-fishing articles were coming out in them while I was already posting on pos-tspawn while post-spawn was deepening, but people don't read closely or process facts enough to see a wrong done in journalism. It doesn't really do a bit of good showing who wrote what first. It's actually quite complimentary for someone to adopt my writing as their own, apparently OK on the internet. It isn't affecting my pocketbook anyway, so I just move on.

Jim . . . .  uh, I mean Ed  

Senile1, that is funny. ;D ;D

Nothing is sacred on the internet. I have found many of my articles pasted on someone elses site, with the site owner acting as if they wrote it. Not much one can do about it.

Actually, yes you can.  I have.  I can't tell you how many sites I've shut down because the site owner thought they could get away with copyright infringement.  Hard lesson for them to learn, but not my problem.  There's been a few I've had to sue too.  Again, they came out on the losing end.  Oh well!