During the past week I exchanged a few mails with Sam Flemming about podcasters on Toodou that got famous because of their video’s, because he planned to write about it on his blog. Today I found an article from the China Daily on my RSS reader about the same subject. I felt it was quite similar to Sam’s article, and when I checked it, it tunrned out that Sam was the author. I did not know that he also writes for this paper, but did not think further about it. But just now I looked at his blog, and found that the China Daily had just copied his blog post without informing or paying him for this. The only thing they did is to put his name on there. Sam doesn
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At least there is consistency throughout all industries.
The good news is once they start respecting IP…it should become consistent throughoutall industries as well…
Maybe……..