Saturday, July 24, 2010

Michael Moore Plagiarist...AGAIN?!




















Yes, it seems that Lefty-filmmaker, Michael Moore has once again been charged with poaching copyrighted pictures and video from others.

Recently, an entire copyrighted news story and its accompanying video from the Knoxville News Sentinel website, suddenly appeared on Michael Moore’s site without the news site’s permission and minus the Knoxville News Sentinel brand.

The original story, about peace protesters at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn., appeared in the Knoxville News Sentinel, on July 5th, with accompanying text, pictures and video from reporter Frank Munger and photographer Michael Patrick.

A few days later, the entire story was re-posted on Michael Moore’s website. The site linked back to the Knoxville News Sentinel but all of the credits for the photographs had been removed. Moore also reprocessed the video to remove the website's branding.

Jack Lail, the Knoxville News Sentinel's MultiMedia editor said, “I noticed they had not only taken our video but they edited it a little bit and took off our Knox News logo and uploaded it to their YouTube channel and I emailed Michael Moore’s website administrator and told them they were using our photos.” Lail went on, “I also filed a takedown request on YouTube and by the next afternoon YouTube had it removed. I never heard anything from Moore’s site.”

FoxNews reports that, “someone at MichaelMoore.com must have read Lail’s message, since the story and video were eventually removed.”

This is becoming a pattern for Michael Moore, who has said that he doesn’t believe in U.S. copyright laws.

In 2009, prize-winning Iraq war correspondent Michael Yon confronted Moore over the filmmaker’s use of Yon’s photo of a soldier carrying a bleeding child on MichaelMoore.com to illustrate a rant against former President George W. Bush. Yon repeatedly tried to contact the site and received no response.

Back in 2007 Moore wrote in the Monthly Review web magazine, “I don't agree with the copyright laws...You share things with people. I think information and art and ideas should be shared.”

Really?

That seems to be an advocacy for video piracy....of Michael Moore’s own films!
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4 comments:

  1. SkunkfeathersJuly 26, 2010 at 9:28 AM

    Moore is a classic libtard: bloated, lazy, overbearing, full of crap, and ideologically on the wrong side of every issue.

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  2. Dan O.July 27, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    "That seems to be an advocacy for video piracy....of Michael Moore’s own films!"

    But, who would wantto?!?!!

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  3. JMKJuly 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM

    "Moore is a classic libtard: bloated, lazy, overbearing, full of crap, and ideologically on the wrong side of every issue." (SF)


    Can't disagree with any of that assessment, but he's also a barometer of sorts. The degree to which he has followers (at this point, not all that many), is the degree to which America has embraced a decidedly anti-individualistic, anti-Liberty mindset.

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  4. JMKJuly 28, 2010 at 5:59 PM

    "That seems to be an advocacy for video piracy....of Michael Moore’s own films!" (JMK)


    "But, who would want to?!?!!" (Dan O)


    OK, you got me there!

    Still, you gotta revile the sloppy thinking and amoral nature of a man who'd pilfer other people's pictures, videos and words, claiming "it should all be public domain," while jealously guarding his own copyright rights for his own...so-called "work."

    In some of the countries he claims to admire, such as he would be among the first to be buried up to their waists and stoned to death.

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