That actually doesn’t surprise me at all. In practically every instance of plagiarism I’ve heard of (outside of academia) people had to lawyer up to get publishers -online and in real life-to do the right thing. I have no idea why they drag their feet. Often, as in your case, the author is only asking for the credit…

Tell me about it.

I’m very sorry this happened to you and that you still have to divert some of your energy to dealing with that dishonest behavior. I hope that at some point fear of exposure on social media will curb this problem even as access to everyone’s work on the internet makes theft tempting to bad people.

I know this isn’t the larger point here, but good God, that is an ugly, badly-done tattoo. It looks like she went to some scratcher operating out of his kitchen. Although I suppose being stuck with that for life is a pretty fitting bit of justice, considering.

I find it interesting who she chose to rip off work from. Two Latinas and one Asian out of four people.

“and spend some amount of time tracking down the chain of custody for artistic thought”

Even without plagiarism, originality is virtually impossible to find—and it’s absurd to think that only art that is truly original ought to be appreciated. Most works aren’t plagiarized, but every single one of them is inspired by…

Arguable her worst crime is the Twitter handle of ms_ocoole.

My old boss told this story about how his great grandfather had worked in a car plant and had stolen a car one part at a time until he had a whole car.

okay I made this comment on a semi-related post earlier, but I would LOVE to start a crowd-sourced list of brands like that, because DAMN they are hard to find.  My personal faves are Liebeskind (purses), Pikolinos (shoes), and Marimekko (clothing) - everything I have bought from those brands has been just lovely to…

There are still some brands that are old school quality that are definitely worth an investment. Though I doubt any of those brands sponsor influensters or impress fashinistas.

I really hate and loathe plagiarizers on a fundamental, guttural level, especially when they achieve fame/recognition based on someone else’s work, or when they are published authors or journalists and steal someone’s words.  It’s as definitive of hypocrisy and low self esteem coupled with massive ego as I can think…

But did they find shirts that are completely opaque? Opaque to the point that it doesn’t matter what color bra I’m wearing? Those are really effing hard to find and I’ve worn the life out of most of the ones I have. No, the solution isn’t to layer two shirts or wear a camisole underneath. If I’m paying for a shirt, it…

I think the most offensive part based on that example is that she made those lines worse. I’d be annoyed if someone butchered a poem I wrote, and they took all the credit and praise.

Honestly? They only care about success and assume most people are just like them. They figure that if they make it big enough no one will care what they did to get there.

This is vindicating!! The human cost of fast fashion is not a trivial thing to shrug off, but I’ve always been kind of skeptical of the idea that ‘designer’, or at least more expensive, items are inherently sturdier or higher quality. I’m a real stickler for feeling the fabric, inspecting seams, looking for linings,…

And the thing is, the poetry world (of actual published/award-winning poets and those who enjoy their work) is small. A lot of people are reading the same little chapbooks. If you plagiarize published work, it’s only a matter of time before you get caught. So this isn’t just assholery. It’s really breathtaking…

Awh...

When I was working on a project, this guy started telling stories that were lifted word for word from Bill Maher’s novel. I’m probably the only other person to have read it. Of course, since I’m a dick, I told everyone, and we spent the rest of the project talking about the time the we were walking home in a ham…

I still think the romance novelist Cassie Edwards wins at plagiarism - she blatently stole from all sorts of different sources from classic literature to a wildlife conservation website, barely changing any of the wording. It went on for decades before she was caught out. https://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/c…

I knew someone who pretended to be traumatized by a horrible childhood when in reality her childhood was idyllic (source: her siblings and also none of the things she gave as examples of abuse were even close to abuse. It could be things like her mother had ignored her when she called because the mother was making…