Laura Knight Jadczyk said...
Melissa Allin QUOTE:
"She stole it in entirety - including downloading my personal pictures to her server and then reposting them. It was not a derivative work, nor a parody...it was outright plagiarism."
Melissa Allin ENDQUOTE:
Melissa Allin needs to invest in a good dictionary, or maybe she needs to ask her good buddy, Wayne Jaeschke to explain the meaning of the word "plagiarism" to her.
Plagiarism is: "the act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation."
Or: "The false presentation of someone else's writing as one's own."
Or: "Taking, using, and passing off as your own, the ideas or words or work of another."
Etc, etc, etc.
There are two points here: First point is that the article was fully attributed and properly linked to abovetopsecret.com. Since we have been forced to remove it from the Signs page for that day because of the threats to our server tech, we have republished that entire signs page on our Russian site here: http://abovetopsecret.narod.ru/signs20050909.htm
where you can view it exactly as it was. Please note the links, the comments at the end suggesting that the reader go to the original to read the entire text and to view all the photos.
Most sites are very happy for us to pick up their articles, publish them in whole or part, because they get a lot of traffic from us. If someone finds an article interesting, they will click the link, go to the site, and check out what else they have there.
And we are always careful to put in correct links, to make full attribution, to give credit to not only the author, but the website.
So, that's the first point.
The second point is that I am not the one who selects the articles to be published. Yes, I select some some of the time, and now and again I fill in for the SOTT team when they are away on research trips. But 99.90 percent of the time, other than writing an editorial now and then, I have nothing to do with the Signs page production anymore.
Final point: at that particular moment in time, I wasn't even in the country. As you can see from my photo albums here:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/Trieste_Mali_Losinj/trieste_mali_losinj_index.html
here:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/Mali_Losinj/mali_losinj_index.html
and here:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/Florence_Firenze_2005/florence_2005_index.html
(check dates on photos)
I was traveling in Italy and Croatia from September 3rd until we returned home on the 13th.
I had no access to a computer, wasn't reading or watching the news, and in fact, was suffering from a herniated disc (as I mention in the travelogue) and spent most of my travel time on medication, in bed, in various hotels.
The main point is, if you look at the way the article was presented, there were TWO links to the original article, full attribution was made, and there was no doubt whatsoever as to who wrote what.
Based on her incredible lie about this matter, not to mention the behavior of that whole gang, they all fit the profile of the psychopath. Have a look here:
http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
and read the related articles. One of the main things about psychopaths is that they always accuse others of what they do themselves.
