{"id":7371,"date":"2010-03-04T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:46:03","slug":"the-last-big-thing-from-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7371","title":{"rendered":"The Last Big Thing from Apple!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a comic I wrote a month ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here is a joke that appeared on Begeek.fr, this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look, I don’t claim to own<\/em> a joke. The internet is one big remix tape of ideas, feeding and looping back on itself. That’s what’s beautiful about it. It’s completely possible that begeek.fr saw the joke I wrote and thought it could be done better. Arguably, that’s what happened. The Begeek.fr version of the joke was picked up on the Consumerist <\/a> and Gizmodo<\/a>, as well as showing up on Digg in a big way.<\/p>\n

But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to at least expect a link back. A hat tip. A “here is where the joke came from”. (And if begeek.fr wanted to maintain Plausible deniability – which they totally could have pulled off with a joke this simple – they shouldn’t have done a straight copy & paste of the third panel, which I photoshopped myself.)<\/p>\n

But cut & pasting my work and then basically re-telling the joke I wrote with small modifications and then passing it off as an original idea is a jerk move. I would have loved to have a little sip of that massive Digg, Gizmodo, and Consumerist traffic. I work hard to draw attention to my stuff and build an audience, and breaks like that never come as often as I’d like. I think a small link is just a matter of basic courtesy, honesty, and manners. Particularly when the traffic starts pouring in. It wouldn’t have hurt begeek.fr at all<\/em> to say where the joke came from or what it was based on. It’s not like I’m asking for money. Just a few bytes of HTML and some basic decency. <\/p>\n

(And don’t bother, now. It’s too late.)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> begeek.fr left a comment<\/a> below indicating that the image was sent to them via email. Can’t really prove them wrong, so the matter is settled. I think they could have dodged this by just saying it came in email. <\/p>\n

Sigh. That’s the way it goes sometimes.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m off to make my next bit of entertainment. Maybe this one will hit the big time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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