Copyright law has not been kind to Team Kimberlin, especially Bill Schmalfeldt. The TKPOTD for four years ago today dealt with one of the many times his lack of understanding hurt him.
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Gentle Reader, that reminds me of this post On Copyrights from 24 November, 2015—
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I was rereading Confessions of an Undercover Internet Troll, and noticed something interesting about how the blog described in the book got started. The character known as Hoggy hired the author to write the blog, offering to pay him with a cut of money raised via Hoggy’s tip jar. If that’s true, then all of the TMZ blog posts contained in the book should be work-for-hire and, therefore, should belong to Hoggy.
Hmmmmm.
UPDATE—After my conversation with CreateSpace this morning, this is what searching for the Cabin Boy’s™ book turned up on Amazon at 12:15 ET this afternoon.
Hmmmmm.
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A man’s got to know his limitations.
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Self-awareness isn’t one of their strong points, is it?
I know intelligence isn’t in Schmalfeldt’s vocabulary, but it seems that he finally learned to keep his head down and his fat gob shut. I guess even a slug feels pain at times.