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John Scalzi's "The Stupidest Thing an Editor With Three Decades of Experience Has Said About the Web Today"

It is, in a response to a writer complaining that the editor’s magazine stole something she wrote on the Internet and used it without compensation:

But honestly Monica, the web is considered “public domain” and you should be happy we just didn’t “lift” your whole article and put someone else’s name on it!

More info and links over at Whatever.

John Scalzi's "The Stupidest Thing an Editor With Three Decades of Experience Has Said About the Web Today"

It is, in a response to a writer complaining that the editor’s magazine stole something she wrote on the Internet and used it without compensation:

But honestly Monica, the web is considered “public domain” and you should be happy we just didn’t “lift” your whole article and put someone else’s name on it!

More info and links over at Whatever.