Judith Griggs at Cooks Source magazine has just issued another statement. Here it is in its entirety, in case it disappears like the last one just did. / Its sad really. The problem is that I have been so overworked and stretched that when this woman — Monica — contacted me, I was on deadline…
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On Internet Justice–Or The Lack Of It
I’ve been thinking about that unwieldy thing, internet justice. When the Cooks Source episode first came to my attention I was appalled by Griggs’ arrogant and cavalier attitude to copyright. But as the story spread across the internet I became just as appalled by the spite and malice expressed in some of the comments about…
Cooks Source Issues A Statement
I had a brief look at the Cooks Source website this morning and it was still there in a somewhat truncated version: the home-page was pretty much unchanged, but most of the other links had gone. I just took another look, and all it contains now is a statement in which it claims Cooks Source…
Let’s Learn About Copyright: Get Blogging!
Some of you might have noticed (ha!) that last week I blogged about the Cooks Source copyright infringement story and suddenly, the number of visitors to this site has soared. I usually get between 300 and 800 hits on any single day; and until last week, my highest-ever number of hits was around 1,200 when…
Copyright Infringement And A Medieval Apple Pie
Tuesday, November 9 This affair has attracted a lot of ugliness which I find very disturbing. I know it’s an emotive issue; I agree that Griggs was wrong in using other people’s work without permission, and I don’t think she’s handled things well at all: but I don’t think she deserves the insulting and abusive…