Tag: Copyright

Total Football Analysis stole 5 of my articles

Featured by Rhys Desmond, posted in World Football

I've been writing about football for over 10 years on this website. In that time, I've had the odd instance of stolen words and zapped insights. Normally it comes from small, lazy creators trying to start a YouTube channel or their own site. Other times it comes from websites that don't seem to have any humans behind them. I didn't think a platform as established as Total Football Analysis and their writers would resort to stealing of intellectual property, but here we are. Here are the three articles in question, each posted 1 day after my original posting on TheMastermindSite.com.

Copyright and intellectual property rights in football writing & analysis

by Rhys Desmond, posted in Most Recent

Let's be clear. Educational / 'fair use' is not copying someone's words and claiming them as your own. What is the point in being a content creator if you're not going to create content? What is the point in being a content creator if you're not going to have original ideas? We are all biased by our experiences, and we are all welcome to echo others and use the work of others as inspiration for our own ideas. But there is line that must not be crossed, and as soon as it's crossed, the wolves are welcome to come out.