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[Stephen Blundell]

Every coffee cup has its own distinctive mark ... aw jez I've been watching too much CSI!

[Kody Boye]

OOH! I didn't know that!

There is never too much of something. For you, never too much CSI, for me, never too much Dr. G. 

[gtkarber]

Theft of intellectual property in the way you're afraid of, i.e. someone copying and pasting an entire work, exists somewhere between the realms of myth and super-rarity.

The only real kind of plagiarism that happens is when someone bases a work on another without permission. That happens rather often, and is the parent of many a lawsuit.

Don't worry about disabling right-click, or using other inconvienent methods in order to prevent possible plagiarism. Whenever I visit a site and attempt to right-click, Open in New Window, and I discover that right-click is disabled, it makes me think the site is a bit amateurish. (That being said, I totally used to do it myself, so I can't blame you for worrying.)

Good luck on all your writing endeavors!

[Kody Boye]

Hey GT!

You think I should just get rid of the no right click then?

[john_sunseri]

Kody, you don't need the copyright symbol either.  It's unnecessary (your work is copyrighted the moment you write it) and it comes off as amateurish.

[Kody Boye]

Yeah, you're right. I need to go remove that, haha.

[ZombieDiva]

Maybe, if he wanted to, to make it a legitimate warning to those who don't know (and would probably be the person who would try to plagarise), Kody could put in very small print at the bottom of the home page a copyright notice with the date, and have something that says "all rights reserved". But I mean in the smallest of print, nothing that is going to stand out like a big sign telling everyone that it's all mine! Don't even think about it! LOL!

Yeah, I agree that there is always a way around the right click disabled thing. I think having a small date stamp should do the trick. But yeah, it is already copyrighted.

[ZombieDiva]

I went back to the site to see the specifics. I'd remove the whole disclaimer thing and just leave the copyright and date notice. That should suffice.

[Kody Boye]

Good idea, Diva; I'm off to do that!

[Zombie Zak]

Well, if you're interested.  I've begun development on a new process, a new system of intelligent performance improvement and defense infrastructure.  I've patented it, and I'm getting ready to roll it out soon.  Now, you ask, what could it possibly be?  As it comes from the obtuse mind of you know me?  What could it be?

Well, friends and fellow Rambo rousers, it's the next great wave of personal and professional defense.  The next big thing to assist poor lonely managers who have impertinent staff to deal with.  The mostest, bestest, neatest new way to motivate others to do things in the right way.

It's "Big Stick Technology!"  That's what it is, yo!  How does it work?  I'm glad you asked.

If somebody is going slow on the highway in the fast lane, you whip out the big stick and hit 'em over the head.
If somebody tries to steal your intellectual property, you whip out the big stick and hit 'em over the head.
If somebody is not pulling their weight on that big project, you whip out the big stick and hit 'em over the head.

You see how it works?  So simple, so sleek, so elegant; I'm surprised that I did not invent it earlier.  But, lumpies and gilders, the new, patented Big Stick Technology is here to make life so much more nicer.  Isn't that grand?

I thought so, too.

hehehehehehe             hehehehehehe

[Kody Boye]

Big stick! Wahoooooooooooooooooooooo....

And now there's stats on the front page, haha. I'ma dork.

[Dave Dunwoody]

I had fleeting concerns about someone plagiarizing some or all of Empire, but it just seemed like ripping off a serial novel would be such a fruitless effort. And c'mon, who wants to put their name on my dreck? (Besides Biff Tannen.)

[Bobbie]

Just a thought.  It actually just blew through my mind . . .

What if people ARE being plagerized every five minutes?  (Believe me, I'm not saying that they are)  How would anyone EVER know?  Unless the writer runs across his stolen work in a magazine, or book (there are thousands of both), or unless the stolen work becomes a monster success?

People steal all the time, despite the risks.  So why not works that are just sitting on webpages, or on Myspace?  Why not?  

Every few years there is a scandal.  The most recent one that I recall is a college student.  She had the advance, and the book was on the shelf before anyone realized it had already been published by someone else.

I'd really like some feedback on this.  It just occurred to me, how would you ever know?

[Kody Boye]

I guess you wouldn't know... And even if people are, it's more than likely that the original author would be the one getting the publishing deal first.

[ZombieDiva]

That story Bobbie was a very good example and something to consider. But, I think that as in the case you point out, when they do get caught they suffer all that much more and they are forever branded a fraud. Even in cases of not plagarizing, but passing off something as truth or fact and later it becomes discredited like that guy who wrote A Million Little Pieces, he was promoted by Oprah Winfrey thru her Book of the Month project. When his neighbors, friends, and family, as well as his drug counsellors, and the police reports showed that his tale was an almost complete fabrication, he was drummed out and humiliated on air when Oprah called him on it. And she actually went easy on him. You don't mess with Oprah!

Anyway, I agree that there could be instances of people plagarizing other's work daily, but I think it's mostly done for writing thesis', kids and book reports, and the occasional loser who is seeking attention and will show himself to be a fraud sooner or later. It would definitely have to be an author that wasn't very well known, so that the thief could continue the charade without suspicion. But there are some pretty dumb people out there. I guess it still falls back to, you just never know.