Whaaatt? All of that brilliance spewing forth from Michael Moore is not original? Of course not; the Left never has any original ideas. Everything oozing out of them is recycled twaddle from the happy Halcyon Stalin Days and again during the 1960′s drug haze. The same burned out bunch of morons have repurposed themselves and taken over the government.
Thus, it’s no surprise that Big Journalism is reporting that Moore liberated an entire story from the Knoxville News Sentinel including video without bothering himself to credit the actual source.
The article’s original author, the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Frank Munger, alerted Lail to the thievery prompting Lail to contact Moore demanding it all be removed. For several days Lail’s demand was ignored as Moore has been known to thumb his nose at copyright laws and intellectual property rights. Finally, though, by July 12, the Moore website removed the offending pages. (For a screen shot of Moore’s website, see the post at Random Mumblings.)
Moore has taken a bold stand against copyright laws, claiming he doesn’t care if people download his movies for free–a surprising indicator that Moore does indeed recognize the value of his work.
As a result, Moore apparently feels rather free to take anything he wants from other artists, writers, and photographers and use them for his own purposes. In 2009, independent Iraq war correspondent Michael Yon threatened to sue Moore for lifting one of Yon’s photos for a tirade against the Bush administration that Moore posted on his site.
Talented authors who pour their time, energy, talents and souls into producing their work beg to differ. Our work does have value and talent-free hacks like Moore does not, by virtue of being a pretend socialist, have license to steal.
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Keep on him. That man obviously doesn’t respect anything to do with other people or this country.
Micheal feels that way, he needs to open his vaults in his Offshore Financial Accounts and give to the less fortunate. I have heard reports, Micheal has made a tidy sum, from his “Righteous Invectives,” against anything Capitalist. Of course, that doesn’t mean him, know only the Corporate heads, need give it back. Cultural Anthropic need not apply, they are enlightened?