I am guessing because GR's article was short, rather than paraphrase, he used the direct quotes. It was kinda lazy of the editor. It's usually not like that. I bet he was trying to meet a deadline. They should have picked a different article rather than just quote the entire article, so I can see your point. I would be surprised if you hear back from them, though I would be interested to know if you do.

Unfortunately, I'm trained to be a business woman which means that I see things through green colored glasses.  My mind goes right into marketing/networking mode and GenomeWeb plugs are worth their views in gold. A banner ad on that site is silly expensive. 

Tideliar - it's not worth so much anger. It's just a difference in viewing what GenomeWeb does. They usually do summarize the blog they are plugging.  I wasn't upset about it. I know that Brian has the best intentions in mind always.

Brian- please continue to look out for us - it's ok to be suspicious and check into things if you think they are attempting to steal content.

So now I can fuck off too? Nice editorial tone you're setting there mate.

"Copying a comment word for word is copyright infringement, Jade.  They could be sued for this.

Their reach isn't much greater than ours anyway.  I don't know why you're defending their stupidity so much.  Do you work for them?"

Grow the fuck up!

Libel? Are you fucking shitting me?! Over a fucking blog-plug? Have you any idea what irresponsible piss that is? WHo the fuck is goiung to sue them Brian? You? Good fucking luck with that.

And WTF are you attacking Jade for? Bcause she disagreed with you>?

Jesus, this fucking place is daft sometimes.

I'm with BB, Jade, and Becca on this as well. Most Creative Commons licenses, which is what most of us use, allow works to be reproduced, even verbatim, as long as attribution is given and isn't used commercially. This, for example, is the CC license I use, which is the most restrictive one possible: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

I don't like this kind of behavior, but there's not much that can be done to prevent it (as long as attribution is given, etc etc), as far as I can tell.

Wait, are you mad that the post is mostly snippets of GR's with no commentary, or are you mad about the lifting of Dr Pelech's comment? Or both? I don't really see a problem with the former, as it's all linked and quoted and whatnot, and if what DS does is just direct people's attention to interesting things going on elsewhere in the blogosphere, then that's what they do. Like BB says, DrugMonkey does this all the time--I mean, he did it with my blog back when I was just starting out and frankly, I couldn't have been more thrilled.

I do agree that copy-pasting the whole comment right into the body of the post is a little weird. However, I highly doubt that it qualifies as copyright infringement, let alone justifies legal action.

Sorry, guys, I'm with Jade Ed on this. The 'journalistic integrity' bit would be vaiid if they didn't cite the source or linkback to GR's post. And copyright infringement only works if you actually claim copyright--which is why many bloggers have started adding Creative Commons copyright usage agreements on their pages. There are many bloggers who do this sort of thing (Drugmonkey comes to mind) to point people to interesting posts they've read.

LOL- No, I don't work for them.

They're not stealing- they're featuring.

They just take an excerpt and make it tantalizing enough to get people to click back to the actual article.

I am surprised you don't see an uptick. We always had huge # of visits when we got plugged. Maybe because it is Thanksgiving and most people are not checking their work email.

Their reach to the scientific community is huge- they can give the labspaces page the kind of exposure that twitter could never do. They will introduce LabSpaces to thousands of new people, including a huge number of marketing people that could be potential advertisers. Seriously.  My company would pay to get a mention on the Daily Scan but they don't work that way. You have to be picked.

You have to have an article that is interesting, insightful, funny, and original to get picked. With the abundance of science bloggers now, they can choose from so many so when they choose you, it means something.

Everyone in the industry gets the Daily Scan. Everyone.

Nah- that's how GenomeWeb works. They pick the coolest articles in the blogging community and then put them together in an email called "The Daily Scan" that goes to maybe 100,000 people. Maybe 50,000? Not sure but its a lot.

Holly had one of her LabSpaces articles picked up a while ago - I was excited for her. On my other blog site, we used to get picked all the time. Our views went up five to ten fold when it did. And colleagues from all over biotech would contact me to say they saw my article.

GenomeWeb just takes a portion of the article to draw in the readers and get them to click through. And they pick maybe only 5 of their favorite blogs to feature for the day. It's really cool to get picked up.  The editor really liked the article- that's why he or she chose it.

It's a good thing when GenomeWeb thinks your article is the best on the web.

Agreed, well said.

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