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Copy Cat
Some one referred me to this site.
Seems the person writing is little bit of a 'copy cat'.
Her profile sounds like this:
Who am I? Might be a good question. Some years ago I would have had a good answer on that. I would have tagged myself with a series of labels: student, party-animal, someone's girlfriend or whatever. By now I know that labels don't tell anything. So forget the labels. Me is only me. Me is my dreams that I try to realize. So who am I? I don't know. I don't have a clue. Who do I want to be? A person who's happy with current life. A person that has someone to care for and share life with. I want a nice house to live in, with beautiful light. A bunch of kids running through the garden, playing and singing. It'll make me smile. Eventually I want to be someone who has a big closet full of children books. Because they contain nice drawings? Because I am too lazy to read adult books? Because deep inside I want to grow up so fast but I still act as a child? Or just because I want to read out lots of stories for my children? But what I already have are a lot of memories. Maybe I am a dreamer. Maybe not. If you want to stick to the labels: I'm 23 years old, don't have the house yet, nor the kids, but I'm still working on the memories, which I share partially on this website.
If you read my profile (which was written back in 2002, long before blogging was known in Belgium ;) and I was still using a forum as an online diary), you might recognize most of the words.
To the person who copy-adapted the words: it is so strange to see somebody that wants (almost) exactly the same as me, in the exact same words. (lol)
I don't mind people take inspiration out of other sites. Frankly, I do it as well.
But I tend to name the source of my information.
And I think I will never copy my 'who am I' from another site ;)
As for the content: this site contains a creative commons license, meaning: you can copy the stuff IF (and only if) it is not commercial, has a referral to the site, and mentions the author (which is me...)
In these strange days of copying content, the concept of copyright is hard to understand. I imagine that our kids will tend to give it a total different meaning.
I think some things will never be respected, and to me, Creative Commons tries to find a reasonable solution.
By mentioning these things, I guess we make people aware of copyright.
(and I am sure everybody has to learn. I dare to say, I made similar mistakes, and learned from them.- So no bad feelings-)
Posted on May 31, 2005
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I guess I'd take it as sort of a compliment. You're a good writer, poetic and creative... and I'm sure you'd even be a better copy-cat ;)
Trouwens, auteursrechtlijke bescherming heb je in België toch ook zonder registratie, in tegenstelling met het Amerikaanse copyright systeem. Enig idee of enkel een vermelding van "je naam(c)datum van-tot en met" op een website in feite voldoende is, als je geen CC license hebt?
Posted by liv.e | May 31, 2005 9:25 PMDon't misunderstand me: I am flattered.
Only the idea that people might think I copy-catted the text could be annoying.
It is like someone takes your pic and puts his/her name beneath it, instead of yours.
All work is indeed copy righted in Belgium.
Posted by ine | June 1, 2005 7:11 PMMore on sabam.be or sofam.be