Thursday, June 12, 2008

Porn Plagiarism, Part Two


Not long ago, writer and blogger Debauchette reported that a porn magazine had taken her writing and repurposed it as girl copy. Now, photographer and blogger Autumn Sonnichsen reports that a woman in Mexico took the contents of her blog, removed the copyright from all her photographs, translated the text of her blog into Spanish, and republished her content as the woman's own.

"The entries have all been altered a bit, to be in letter form to this Claudia, and there are elaborate (untrue) digressions about how she and I met on Rodeo Drive and then went back to her hotel room, how she was my assistant, how I am grateful to her for publishing my work; there is a fake letter from Kitty thanking her for posting Kitty´s photos, there are photos of other girls that she says are of her, there are photos of other girls that she says I have dedicated to her."

Autumn opines: "This is the gray version of the blog raping, I suppose." After she wrote her post, the ripoff blog was removed.