Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Sex Tape Leaked (Or How To Be A Modern Journalist)
Thursday Claire Zulkey of MediaBistro Toolbox did a riff on one of Brian Clark’s posts.
So far, so good.
Claire’s post was so good it caught the attention of The Daily Telegraph in the UK.
Still good.
The Daily Telegraph in the UK liked the post so much that they decided to change the headline and run it as their own work.
(oh, about the Jolie/Pitt sex tape. Doesn’t exist. Just practicing my Journalistic Integrity.)
[reloaded: The Telegraph removes the offending post, but the cache lives on]
August 26, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Here’s Claire’s original post so you can compare:
http://www.mediabistro.com/mbtoolbox/writing_online/5_signs_your_blog_post_is_going_horribly_wrong_42442.asp
August 26, 2006 at 5:49 pm
My fault! I should have included that!
August 26, 2006 at 6:18 pm
[...] With a resumé like Claire’s you’d think she wouldn’t notice or care too much about the occasional rip-off. But it looks like she does. Other people care too. Isn’t that uptight of them? [...]
August 26, 2006 at 6:19 pm
what about the end of plagiarism? and isnt the value of new media less about content and more about being a resource?
i’m not saying what was done was cool. just questioning how much it matters.
August 26, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I knew that was coming.
I don’t think it matters much to most of us. But this is not an example of someone remixing someone else’s content.
This is taking the book Fight Club and saying you wrote it.
A very big difference.
One your ideas are out there, they are gone. But to take a complete work and to claim it as your own is beyond the pale.
(Bt the way, ‘Beyond The Pale’ by Big Audio Dynomite should be remixed by a modern artist. It’s a great song!)
August 26, 2006 at 7:20 pm
The point is old media looking down their noses at the blogging rabble and pulling stuff like this. You won’t hear the Telegraph agreeing with liberal notions of copyright when it comes to their content.
August 26, 2006 at 7:44 pm
but, alas, some say fight club is a stolen work in the first place….
i’m sure some photographers would say their pictures are complete works, no? but you’re taking them. why? because your audience appreciates them, it adds value to your posts, and after all, you’re remixing them — so it’s not like you’re cannabalizing the value of a photographer who puts his/her photos on flickr; instead, your remix creates new, original value. and likewise, isnt a newspaper just a remix of a bunch of different writers? and also likewise, how is it really stealing from the original author’s source of value? if anything, since it’s getting some buzz online, i’d say it was a good thing for brian.
@ brian: no doubt what you say regarding old media is true. but what’s unfortunate IMO is that bloggers devote the attention of their audiences to such “theft” — doing so is essentially playing the old media game and valuing what old media values (content), which is exactly what bloggers should be devaluing (doubly so for bloggers who view old media as competitors).
i agree a big mistake was made — but IMO the mistake wasnt in ripping off a blogger. it was in the Telegraph failing to make itself a valuable resource by not linking to the blogger.
August 26, 2006 at 8:35 pm
I don’t think it was a “mistake” — in none of this person’s rule books is there a grey area about stealing content. But I otherwise hear what you’re saying.
August 26, 2006 at 9:11 pm
>>>but, alas, some say fight club is a stolen work in the first place…
Those people lack the capacity to understand contemporaneous social commentary. As if only one person is allowed to see truth at any given time. Or that one person cannot take another’s observations and tell an even better story.
Of course, I know you’re smarter than that yourself, Kid.
August 26, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Brian and Char are right. There’s no way this is a mistake. Old Mass Media needs to take this one to the chin and she needs to lose her job over it. Bloggers show more respect. As I said over at your blog (and would’ve blogged at mine Brian — if this damn book project wasn’t due Monday) Things like this don’t happen this way just one time. Not this blatantly.
This is a product of a culture. It starts small and gets bigger. We slowly become what we look at most. Somehow that woman thinks it’s okay to do that as long as no one knows and for a long time no one would. She just didn’t know the world had changed.
Bet if you look she’s been doing it for quite a while.
August 27, 2006 at 12:36 am
Brian, Char and Liz are right: there is no mistake, here, folks. I almost don’t care if Zulkey cares, because baby, I am BEYOND outraged on her behalf.
Do you Digg? I do. Here’s a link to the first person who floated this on Digg:
http://digg.com/business_finance/Telegraph_co_uk_plagiarizes_Chicago_blogger
Go. Sign up. Bring this to the forefront. Out this loser. What she did is cheap, nasty, dark-of-night, outright theft. I don’t care if you’re writing about f*cking pantyhose–no one should think it’s okay to sneak in and steal your sh*t. It’s theft, theft, THEFT!
And it will not stand. Unless, of course, we let it…
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I agree. Take them to the mat!
August 27, 2006 at 10:59 am
looks like the article was taken down http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/errors/NotFound.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/society/melissawhitworth/aug06/blogging.htm
August 27, 2006 at 11:46 am
Here’s her explanation:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/melissawhitworth/aug06/misunderstanding.htm
August 27, 2006 at 11:47 am
Assuming this is true, we can now see the problem when you don’t even post to your own blog.
August 27, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Weak.
I don’t believe her.
August 27, 2006 at 5:22 pm
That explanation is extremely implausible. Mind you, I also find it implausible that a newspaper thinks it can straight up steal someone’s work and get away with it.
A very bad mistake of some description was made, but what? The mistake of thinking that they could take something circulated in email and reproduce it in whole, giving the impression it was their original work or the mistake of thinking a forwarded joke was a submission of work by a journalist? A very unprofessional lapse whichever way you look at it.
August 27, 2006 at 5:28 pm
All i can say is “pants on fire….”
August 27, 2006 at 5:29 pm
still great publicity for Brian – so all is good for the copyblogggaaa
August 28, 2006 at 1:17 am
Thats funny. but all jounalist do that. If you scan through a few of you local papers over a few days you will see a few articles being reused by different jounalists.
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August 28, 2006 at 12:50 pm
“If you scan through a few of you local papers over a few days you will see a few articles being reused by different jounalists.” Isn’t that mostly because they were published by a news agency and can thus be used by various papers (assuming they’re quoting the source, that is…). Well, don’t know. But nice heading on the blog entry, made me look
Hanna
http://www.blogs.fi/blogiblogi
August 28, 2006 at 1:18 pm
>>Thats funny. but all jounalist do that. If you scan through a few of you local papers over a few days you will see a few articles being reused by different jounalists.
That’s called syndication, and they pay for that.
This was not that.
August 31, 2006 at 12:07 am
I did happen to laugh when i read the “This is taking the book Fight Club and saying you wrote it.” and then “some say fight club is a stolen work in the first place….
” Douglas Coupland in the house?
September 4, 2006 at 5:37 am
Hanna and Brian :
There you go learn something new. Alway thought journalist had to write their own version of the same news but not direct copy off 1 article.
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