Cooks' Source Plagiarism update...

[seawasp]

It appears that they've taken down the magazine; all that I can access when I go to the site are three pictures and no other material. Not surprising, given the massive reaction which has discovered at least 44 (FORTY FOUR!) examples of plagiarism hitting the Cooking Channel, NPR, Paula Dean, Rachael Ray, Disney, other Food Network stars, Sunset magazine, and others.

Dang!

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[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Don't tick off the mob.

[remus-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The spreadsheet linked from the Facebook topic now lists 74 different stolen articles. Not plagiarized -- they attributed them correctly, they just didn't ask for permission to reprint them.

At this point the editor might be best just throwing herself on the mercy of the court.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the liability rest with the publisher, not the editor?

[seawasp]

In this case I believe they are one and the same.

[seawasp]

"If he attack you, he is enemy! And enemy deserve... NO MERCY!"

She'd better hope the judge isn't a Cobra Kai dojo attendee. :)

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

The magazine's original facebook page got so inundated with people complaining and poking fun at them, that they created a new one. Which is also getting inundated.

And, yeah, after reading through some of their responses, I'm pretty sure that the publisher and editor are the same person. Probably some back-woods MA housewife who thought she could make money by selling ads in a hand-out that would get left at various restaurants ... and be filled with articles she had stolen from various sources.

She probably could have gotten away with it if she had just kept the content off of the 'net, and kept to the free-restaurant-handout format. I mean, making that shift is kinda like a ninja deciding that they should branch out, fashion-wise, into sequins, since everyone else is doing it. Those who are committing subterfuge should never draw attention to it (unless that subterfuge is a distraction away from some other event ... which is not the case here).

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

Stupid people are stupid.
But you knew that. :)