ALL CONTENT ON THIS BLOG IS THE PROPERTY OF GETTING PAST YOUR PAST PRODUCTIONS AND IT MAY NOT BE COPIED NOR DUPLICATED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE OWNER, SUSAN J. ELLIOTT. DO NOT COPY ALL OR A LARGE PORTION OF ANY POST OR I WILL TAKE LEGAL ACTION.
This morning I had to send 5 emails to various websites and blogs and MySpace pages that have copied word-for-word posts from here without crediting me or the blog. It seems I have to do this every few days and it becomes tedious. The next time it happens I’m posting the offender’s email here and everyone can write to them to tell them to stop it. I average between 3000 and 5000 readers per day so if even a portion of those readers hits the infringer, they will have a swell time cleaning out their mail box. The next step will be (I’m a lawyer after all) court. I have a bar card (3 actually) and I’m not afraid to use it. The only other alternative would be to shut the blog down and I do not want to do that.
Also please do not paste ENTIRE POSTS of mine somewhere else even with credit. PLEASE just post a snippet and a link back to here. It’s not nice to cut and past entire posts of a blog (mine or anyone’s) somewhere else Please don’t do it.
UPDATE 7/9/8
A reader alerted me to the fact that a post on another website basically rewrote When The Person You Love Doesn’t Love You and cited this blog as a “source.” This person also said that “a friend” said “reject the rejector” and she just happened to put it in. I say, uh uh. I am drafting the letter to this person in a legal way but I want to put this here.
When The Person You Love Doesn’t Love You is one of the most popular posts on GPYP and has been lifted on several websites.
I pour my heart and soul into this blog and I have to post this:
All of the posts on this blog are original GPYP postings authored and copyrighted by Susan J. Elliott, Esq. The expression “Reject the rejector” is an original GPYP quote and the trademark application is pending. If you use this expression without crediting, it is a trademark violation.
If you take significant portions of this post, it is plagiarism. If you rewrite it in your words but still follow the same outline and sentiment it is PLAGIARISM.
If you repost it without crediting it to Susan J. Elliott, Esq., it is copyright infringement and is actionable under the laws of these United States. Please review my copyright policy. As an attorney, I will enforce my legal rights aggressively.
I try to credit the original sources when I quote them (Melody Beattie, John James, Stephen Levine, Lou Tice etc etc) and have asked people to let me know if I write something or say something that comes from someplace else and I have not credited it.
I expect others to do the same.
Thank you to alert readers!!!!
Getting Past Your Past 
at least it’s the sincerest form of flattery!
And you better get ready for your book to sell like hotcakes…
Thanks Serenity. :)
What really annoys me is when they post it and they get comments about how brilliant it/they are and they don’t say it’s not their words. I have actually commented a time or two taht directs them back here but I’m a bit tired of that.
I use a lot of expressions that I have gotten mostly from others and always credit them. It’s not that hard. Most of my stuff is not original but the way it’s put together is original (which is why it’s copyrightable).
Thanks for being here!
Absolutely. I read papers at the end of almost every semester and grow very tired
of the laziness, if not outright unwillingness, to credit sources. The problem
has grown worse with the availability of information on the internet, but the internet
does not change the rules about crediting sources. Plagiarism is still plagiarism!!
It really isn’t that hard to give credit where credit is due. I make every effort to do that
and expect others to do the same.
Hi Susan
I have had one person in particular take out snippets of my entries and post in her own entries. This is someone who I don’t get along with, and she always speaks of me in ill terms on her blog. I don’t have any of those copyright things on my blog but I hate the fact she does this. She is someone that I try to stay away from so I don’t know if it is a good idea to just send her a polite email requesting her to remove the content.
I’d like your insight on this.
Thank you