Greetings Performancing members! My name is Jonathan Bailey and I run the Web site Plagiarism Today. It is a site about content theft, copyright and plagiarism issues on the Web.
The editors here at Performancing have asked me to come on as an adviser in these forums. Though I am not a lawyer and nothing I say is to be taken as legal advice, I am very knowledgeable about many legal issues that face bloggers.
However, I am here especially to help with any content theft or plagiarism issues you've encountered. If you've encounter someone using your content without permission, say a scraper or a plagiarist, feel free to post the details of the incident in a new post and I will be very happy to help you resolve the matter.
I will, as needed, research the matter, determine what is likely the best course of action and locate all of the information necessary to follow through.
Soon, to this forum, I will be posting stock DMCA notices and cease and desist letters to help with that process.
In addition to content theft, this forum will deal with other copyright issues including licensing, fair use and others that might arise over the course of creating and running a blog. If you have questions regarding any of those areas, especially with specific cases, feel free to place them in a new post and I will gladly look at them as well.
But this forum is not to be limited to just copyright issues, but to any issues that a blogger may face including, potentially, defamation, trademark, free speech issues, privacy and more. If I do not know the answer, and on non-copyright or mass media law topics that is very possible, I will research it for you or ask one of my colleagues for their opinion.
The end goal is to make this forum a one-stop shop for legal questions and answers related to blogging and a centralized place to discuss the issues that matter the most to us.
So please, feel free to add your thoughts and comments to this and, if you have an ongoing problem with content theft, post it into a new topic and I will see what I can do for you.
I am here to help in any way that I can.
Bible
How can publishers claim the bible is the word of God and publish it as so when there is not one original manuscript of any of the 66 books it contains. There is nothing to prove the bible except copies of copies! No other work would be allowed or accepted as authentic without the original so how is it that the bible can legally be published as the word of any God? Where is the proof without originals?
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