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In light of a rather rude complaint I got recently from someone whose article I shared on my blog here (with full credit and praise), I've decided to lay down some simple rules if you ever want to share my posts. The only rule is: there aren't any rules.
To me, copyright infringement is distributing my work and claiming it as yours, or profiting from my work. Sharing it with somebody else and saying look at this great article I found, is a compliment to me and it is helping me by spreading the word about my blog and getting more readers to my work. Writers and students quote the work of others in their articles and books all the time. That's why we use bibliographies and footnotes.
Nothing I post on here, I really consider "my work" except for maybe three research papers that I posted here. Nothing else on this blog took any real work on my part nor did I use my writing skills. This post for example, breaks several rules of good writing. I'm using a conversational tone. So if you copy this post, maybe it's not nice but it's not exactly stealing my work.
Even those articles I wrote that I posted here, feel free to share them with whoever you want. Post them to your blog if you want. I use a Firefox extension called Zemanta that gives you an easy way to to do it. There's a reblog button at the bottom of my posts. You can also print these out and give them out to people, put them on a t shirt, tattoo it on your ass, I really do not care. As long as my name is on it and you tell them where you got it from, I am thrilled to have my work reach a bigger audience and proud that you thought it was good enough to share.
Self important author that thinks he's Hemmingway told me it would be better if I linked to the article on here rather than posting it. Does any rational person see what difference it makes whether people read it here waste time jumping to another page to do the same exact thing they could do here? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question. Point is, I'm not a primadonna, I don't consider my blog here to be a masterpiece. I don't care if people come here to read it or read it on your page. Copy and paste it to your blog if you want to. Just again, put my name on it and where you got it from. Just don't plagurize me, that's all I care about.
If you do post it somewhere or share it, drop me a line or post a comment if you feel like it and let me know you found it interesting.
If there's anything you see on my page that you don't think should be here, just send me a message and ask me nicely and talk to me with respect. No need for drama.
As for my terrible crime of giving praise to a blog poster who thinks he's a great author, I will not be linking to his post. I am not going to help drive traffic to his site. I would have if he had been more reasonable about it. Instead, I'm going to write my own article on the same subject. I'll write it much more concise and get the point across in far fewer pages. I use it for reference for people considering switching to Mac and they don't want to read through pages and pages of his babbling anyway. I should have written a synopsis to begin with. I won't need to quote him because he didn't provide any information Mac users don't already know. He just saved me the trouble of writing up something myself.
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