Copy-paste to the masses?

The other day I was presented with the book “Freebies on the Internet”. It's a strange gift, to be honest, because who, if not a web developer, knows where the notorious freebie is buried on the Internet. Decency decided to flip through the book. As expected, it talked about torrents, ftp-storage, search engines, etc.

But it was not at all that that surprised me.



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Leafing through this brochure, on the cover of which was “sold over 200 thousand copies,” I found the text of my article . Completely! Apparently, the author of this book (A.N. Plushev, Martin Publishing House, Moscow, 2009) decided to take advantage of the Internet to the fullest, as they say, coil.

My article almost without processing, only with permutations of the text and printed.

You know, I have long been accustomed to, that books, especially cheap technical ones, do not shine with quality. For example, several years ago I read a book on the safety of web applications with a huge number of errors and with an index that didn’t correspond to the truth (no term in it could be found on the indicated page numbers).

However, in a hard copy, I come across a brazen copy-paste (and scientifically speaking, plagiarism) for the first time. Of course, I began to search - maybe there is still a link to my site. Alas. Found nothing of the kind. However, the funny thing is, in my case, to prove authorship is very simple - the text of the article itself repeatedly mentions both the name of my site and the links to it (well, at least it comforts).

Friends immediately let advise: sue, sue. What for? The author of the book really took and used the material from the Internet, as they say, “for free” and it’s not worth blaming it (I’ve seen this article more than once in the forums without giving a reciprocal link). True, one had the impression that he simply picked up, found a forum thread for beginners on the Internet, and snagged a series of articles for noobs from there. That's all the work.

In addition, there is no “disclaimer” on my site, and at that time there was no inscription on the prohibition of copying materials without a link, and I didn’t register any media, LLC, IP, etc., hosting was free so I think it will not be possible to file a lawsuit anyway.

But that's not the point. The fact itself is alarming - copy-paste has already captured not only the virtual space, it broke free. Therefore, more often scroll through the print editions, it suddenly turns out that the author of the new-fashioned bestseller is none other than yourself.

PS In this book, not only is my article stolen, for example, Dmitry Turetsky's article “Electronic money and their capabilities through the eyes of the user” is present in it. If you dig, I think you can find even more plagiarism.

UPD. At the request of a link to a stolen article .

UPD 2. Well, the author, hold on: you do not see our money .