Write you are…

So the internet has been standing up for copyright. No, really. Everywhere from the Guardian to Boing Boing is covering the story of how a magazine stole a writer’s work and then said she should paythem.

The links and comments on the LiveJournal post have it covered, so I won’t rehash the info all over again. But I will say this. In a world where people bang on about how “information wants to be free” and “the internet has made copyright redundant” it is abso-bloody-lutely lovely to see the web world sticking it to someone who stole something that wasn’t theirs. It is amazing to see the internet shouting about how putting something on the internet doesn’t mean other people have an automatic right to swipe it.

Now, if everyone could just apply the same principles to music and film, that would be grand.