RE: how to properly source a post
I'm glad you made this post. This is highly relevant and important material for anybody who creates content for social media sites, websites, blogs, or any other online and offline media.
I think the dawn of the Internet really pushed people back as far as copyright infringement goes. The fact is that it's almost impossible to police copyright on the Internet fully. Sure, people like musical artists and movie production companies can afford to do it, but your average person cannot.
I have a few blogs and websites, and my articles are stolen all the time. The only recourse I really have is to file a DMCA "takedown" notice, but those take up a lot of time and even then sometimes the people who have stolen your work simply ignore them.
I don't even go after people who steal my articles anymore. It's too time consuming and it's not worth getting angry about and risking my health over.
I think that we've come a long say since the Internet was in it's younger days, but it's still basically a free for all.
I find it sad that there are so many people who are lazy enough to simply steal another's hard work. If enough people start writing articles like this one, hopefully we can help spread the word that plagiarism is NOT OK!
BTW, I upvoted and followed you :)
thanks! i've not worried much about stuff like pirated movies before, but the theft of work and done by the lone artist affects their income; whether they will continue to create or be forced into a common job they detest. on the web, we can either rely on personal integrity to oversee content, which is chancy at best, or implement a big brother scenario, which will dissuade participation. as you say it's nearly impossible to monitor or enforce.
what i see here at steemit may (i hope) simply be lack of education. hence the post. but i cannot rule out laziness or greed. the get easy money value pushed by the downside of capitalism is to blame here, not to mention lack of ethics. in my experience, we can't make people responsible when it's so easy not to be.
some brilliant person will eventually create a program that prevents others from copying written content on sites with cut paste so that this becomes a bit more difficult to do.. until then..
people have advanced now such that even though such program is designed, they will still take time and do the typing by themselves if the cut and paste features are not made available.