Plagiarism also refers to copying other people’s work without appropriate attribution, but it usually comes up in the context of things like honor codes at universities e.g. if a law student plagiarizes someone else’s work at my school it is a violation of our honor code and may go on the student’s permanent record.

While you don’t generally “own” jokes in terms of the actual ideas that make the jokes funny, you do generally hold copyright in the fixed literal expression of the joke provided that it is your own original expression.

Anyway, thanks for giving me something to post about. I’m really interested in how intellectual property law plays out in the blogosphere and your experience with Revolver – even though it was obviously upsetting to you – gave me a lot to think about.

Thank you for the insight into copyright law. The issue we had with Revolver was that they were taking our blog posts and posting them on their site like they wrote it.

It would be like someone creating madisonians.net and copy/pasting all of your posts in their site. Including hot linking to your photo galleries. (eating away from your bandwidth). What is this called? Plaigirism? Copyright infringement? I don’t have copyright on the jokes I make on the blog

We weren’t after monetary compensation/gain, after they stopped copying our blog and apologized that was enough for us. We have no ill will towards Revolver Entertainment.

Thanks for the insight.

Dr. Gozde G**** (32 years old, far from a teen)