Nancy Delia wrote:Cardinal Fang wrote:I'll be happy to take any credit for other people's submissions if that will help
CF
peacefulsongs wrote:Yes it would.
peacefulsongs wrote:Your willingness to make things happen for our noodley Lord will be remembered when they read the Loose Canon 400 years from now.
what was this all about?
The short version is that someone joined here, saw the Loose Cannon and decided to sell it for profit. This is despite the fact the Loose Cannon was intended to be distributed free of charge to anyone that wanted it. By claiming other peoples' work as their own and selling it this poster was not only breaking copyright law but also being fundamentally dishonest.
Imagine you spent time and effort putting together an explanation of what the FSM is, the message behind Pastafarianism and a history of our religion. It might well take you a hundred hours to get sorted, checked, proofread, altered, re-checked and perfected. You then decide to share that with anyone that wants it in the spirit of Pastafarianism. How would you feel if someone took your work, passed it off as their own and tried to make money from it?
Nancy Delia wrote:Cardinal Fang wrote:Have any of the Council of Olive Garden complained to Amazon yet about intellectual property theft - after all, as the compilers of the Loose Canon they surely have some say (I'm presuming that by submitting entries to it, individual Pastafarians are giving the Council of Olive Garden permission to use it and publish it - might be worth checking).
Also worth anyone who's work is in the Loose Canon reporting it to Amazon - after all the original authors still hold the copyright, even if they've given the Council of Olive Garden permission to use their work.
Alternatively - could we persuade Bobby Henderson to jump in. He, afterall, does own the original rights to the FSM and presumably could say that this edition, featuring the FSM, has been published without his permission.
Procedure for reporting IP theft to Amazon is
hereCF
i'm starting to smell some bs.
What is 'bs'? That a former poster claimed other peoples' intellectual property as their own? That is true. That the former poster published other peoples' work as their own in an attempt to profit from it? That is also true. That none of the actual authors (the people that wrote the intellectual property) consented to their work being published for a former poster's profit? That is also true. I fail to see where any 'bs' is.