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  • From: A Sampson-Kelly <april@permaculturevisions.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 91, Issue 44 copyright
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:59:00 +1000

I the early years of our project (let's say the first 10 years) I used to get offended and hurt that people would do all sorts of amazing copyright stuff,
they wouldn't even bother to copy and paste, they would put up a frame that was theirs and simply have my text inside their frame on stuff.
I started branding the text a bit with our logo and making sure there were hyperlinks to my site where relevant but at the end of day,
this is not going away, even people living in my home town have admitted to using my course notes and on-selling it as theirs, that's pretty raw!!

My partners and I have recognised that the only way on is up, I have to keep making sure that our course is current, better than the copies, and relevant.
Best of luck, I uphold copyright, I acknowledge the world is full of clever people and I cite them.
People can't keep expecting comment and writings for nothing - "a man is worth his salt"

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: WTF? (Killian O'Brien)
2. strategy for dealing with plagiarism (paul wheaton)
3. Svar: strategy for dealing with plagiarism (Thomas Paul Jahn)
4. Re: WTF? (Lee Flier)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:19:53 -0400
From: Killian O'Brien<admin@pri-de.org>
To: permaculture<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] WTF?
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Lee,

This is basically an FYI comment, but I think if we are bothering to have
this conversation, we can't dismiss what is an important aspect of it, even
if not a central point of contention therein.

Research, experience and history do show fairly large differences in
communicative styles which also translate over to problem solving. Of course,
these are generalizations, but they are real issues and the generalizations
apply to a large percentage of the population. Essentially, women problem
solve via relationships, men via practicalities.

The results of female leadership because of this tend to create more
cooperative, more peaceful results... including societies. Like I said
before, I'd love to study with permaculturists such as Starhawk, but would
likely never teach in a similar style... though I might have 20 years ago.

Cheers,

Killian O'Brien
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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lee Flier
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:44 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] WTF?

Oh, I don't deny that. I think what I'm saying is that I'm not sure
how constructive it is to frame it in those terms. In my own
experience, this only seems to get people more entrenched rather than
enlightened. Most people are really loathe to be seen as un-masculine
or un-feminine, so if you point to some study that shows there are
differences, people will tend to cling to those behaviors as if doing
otherwise would betray their gender.

President Obama alluded to this same problem when he spoke about how
many black kids in poor areas will put down a friend who reads books for
"acting white." I'm sure you could point to statistics that show fewer
black kids than white kids read books regularly, but obviously,
correlation doesn't equal causation, and this doesn't mean that reading
books is or should be something that's associated with "being white."
Likewise I think the implication that "women are better at communicating
than men," among other things, is self perpetuating.

On 8/20/2010 2:29 PM, LBUZZELL@aol.com wrote:
Thanks, Lee. There has been quite a bit of research on "average"
differences in conversation styles in women and men
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:56:30 -0600
From: paul wheaton<paul@richsoil.com>
To: permaculture<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] strategy for dealing with plagiarism
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Every few months I get obsessed on some topic and write an article -
and I usually spend about 40 hours over the following month polishing
it to make it just right. And then I find it copied and pasted
somewhere without any credit to me. This has been happening more and
more. Today's examples is this article on soil ph (
http://www.richsoil.com/ph/ ) which has been copied here (
http://www.reelyard.com/?p=11 ).

In the dozens of times in the past when I contact folks that do this,
I try to convince them to change it to "here is an article I like" -
maybe have a paragraph and then a link to my article. Instead, about
half the time I get some bullshit about how they wrote it first. So
then I go to the wayback machine and prove I wrote it first. Then
they say that there is no such thing as copyright on the internet.
They are nearly always livid pissed that I could be such an asshole
about it. Well ... it just ends up a big hassle. In the end, they
usually delete it and I feel like crap for having hassled them.

So I already have a way of confronting them that turns into a big shit
storm and ends up with them sending me all sorts of nasty and after
all sorts of pain, they finally delete it.

I want to find an approach so that the response is "sorry about that -
let me make it right by making a link to you and telling folks your
stuff is good!"

So I'm fishing for suggestions. Any ideas on how to approach these
most recent offenders?


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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:04:01 +0200
From: "Thomas Paul Jahn"<tpj@life.ku.dk>
To:<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Svar: strategy for dealing with plagiarism
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Paul! Instead of the usual reference list (or rather: in addition to) you may
want to consider a list list:
"has been cited at..." or "simply copied from...".
I think the 'way back machine' is a good idea and you have the proof on hand.
This way, at least the people that come to your page will be aware of the
impact of your work.
In any case: I appreciate your work and spirit.
So please carry on
Thomas

paul wheaton 21-08-10 22:57>>>
Every few months I get obsessed on some topic and write an article -
and I usually spend about 40 hours over the following month polishing
it to make it just right. And then I find it copied and pasted
somewhere without any credit to me. This has been happening more and
more. Today's examples is this article on soil ph (
http://www.richsoil.com/ph/ ) which has been copied here (
http://www.reelyard.com/?p=11 ).

In the dozens of times in the past when I contact folks that do this,
I try to convince them to change it to "here is an article I like" -
maybe have a paragraph and then a link to my article. Instead, about
half the time I get some bullshit about how they wrote it first. So
then I go to the wayback machine and prove I wrote it first. Then
they say that there is no such thing as copyright on the internet.
They are nearly always livid pissed that I could be such an asshole
about it. Well ... it just ends up a big hassle. In the end, they
usually delete it and I feel like crap for having hassled them.

So I already have a way of confronting them that turns into a big shit
storm and ends up with them sending me all sorts of nasty and after
all sorts of pain, they finally delete it.

I want to find an approach so that the response is "sorry about that -
let me make it right by making a link to you and telling folks your
stuff is good!"

So I'm fishing for suggestions. Any ideas on how to approach these
most recent offenders?
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:58:22 -0400
From: Lee Flier<leeflier@comcast.net>
To: permaculture<permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] WTF?
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Like I said, I don't deny the research, but I just don't know that
it's constructive to frame communications problems in those terms. I
think it's enough to simply say that there are different styles of
communication (which are affected by a lot of factors including gender,
culture, language, and individual upbringing) and it's probably
constructive for everyone to work on their communication skills,
especially in today's globalized culture.

I also don't necessarily agree that female leadership tends toward more
cooperative or peaceful results. We haven't had too many women in power
throughout history to use as examples, but those we have had haven't
necessarily been shining examples - Margaret Thatcher and Marie
Antoinette come to mind. :D Women are just as susceptible as men to
being corrupted by power.

I realize there are some generalities that hold true in a lot of cases,
but since I've personally been victimized by generalizations far more
often than I've been helped (and know many others in the same boat), I
tend to poke holes in them much more often than accept them.

On 8/21/2010 3:19 PM, Killian O'Brien wrote:
Lee,

This is basically an FYI comment, but I think if we are bothering to have
this conversation, we can't dismiss what is an important aspect of it, even
if not a central point of contention therein.

Research, experience and history do show fairly large differences in
communicative styles which also translate over to problem solving. Of course,
these are generalizations, but they are real issues and the generalizations
apply to a large percentage of the population. Essentially, women problem
solve via relationships, men via practicalities.

The results of female leadership because of this tend to create more
cooperative, more peaceful results... including societies. Like I said
before, I'd love to study with permaculturists such as Starhawk, but would
likely never teach in a similar style... though I might have 20 years ago.


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