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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Are You Big Enough To Be A Target?

When someone plagiarizes us, we shouldn’t send a subpoena.

We should a thank you note.

Creative piracy is a compliment. It’s a reminder that we're worthy copying. And it’s validation that we're big enough to be a target.

It’s also part of the job description. Everybody steals from everybody everywhere. They always have, and they always will. That doesn't make it okay. But there’s not much we can do to stop it, and there’s even less we can do to prevent it.

Instead, let’s make peace with this reality. Let’s abandon our scarcity mentality. And let’s err on the side of generosity and sharing.

We shouldn’t worry about getting back at people.

We should worry about getting back to work.

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2 Comments

2 Comments:

At 5:42 AM, Neen said...: so true! I once had someone share my whole speech with their client and then create all their marketing materials just like mine - amazing! I shared with my team that this just forces me to have to be even better- it is going to happen eventually - the sooner the better - at least we know it is worth copying!
At 12:32 PM, Basil Puglisi said...: I like the thought process, you notice on http://dbmei.com we have a Copyright Info page that talks about how we track it and want to be aware, but mostly we just don;t want others passing our content off as their origianl ideas so as long as we are cited we to find it a positive thing.