Copycat

It may seem incredibly two-faced to have a 'No Copying' icon imbedded on this page, when I do reproduce a lot of current and popular news onto this site.

The 'Do Not Copy' clause is really to cover my own writing, which is not news but creative writing (fiction).

It does make me wonder what news agencies must think/feel about blogger lifting content and using them on their sites. This phenomen, when employed as the sole raison d'être for the existence of a site, means you're no longer dealing with a blog, but a SPLOG: a SPam bLog.

So am I a Splogger? To some extent I suppose that's true. A splogger though doesn't really care about content, just hits. Anything that's popular is the bread and butter of the splogger. My blog is really interested in meaningful news, though I have to admit I add what I can to spice it up: some humor, some sexy babes.

The real reason behind the Copycat clause is to protect the novels I place on this site. At the moment there are three:
Holiday
Half Full Moon
The Sun Shines and Burns

I've also loaded up a fourth which I've since abandoned (a work in progress).

Today for example I'll be loading up some revisions done to Half Full Moon. I personally believe it is good writing, better than some of the stuff on bookshelves today. Blogging is supposed to enable serious (he thinks!) literally talents like me to get themselves noticed/published.

What happens though when your book online becomes a paperback, published under someone elses name? You'll only know about that one when your own words visit you in the local bookshop, and by then Mr Plagiarism is holidaying in the Bahamas, courtesy of all those evenings you weren't clubbing and having sex with your girlfriend.

Perhaps that's a story too:
The Bestseller's Life: the story of an ordinary man, living a (fairly) ordinary life, who finds the plagiariser who is living the life he might have lived...