Again, let me stress, this is not an attack on food bloggers. It is however an attempt to make some people think about what they do, and one thing I've noted is how often an amateur blog that is stuffed with recipes and even photos, cut & pasted from professional food writers' sites, will also say at the bottom of the page "© 2010 my name or the name of this blog" or even something on the lines of "The content of this site is © my name or the name of this blog and should not to be reproduced without prior permission".
Come on guys, think about it! You want people to respect your work, and not to copy it ? So start by giving that same consideration to other people. Don't take someone else's recipes or photos and post them on your blog. You like their recipe ? Then give a link to it. Or make it, and post your own images, but don't cut & paste the recipe! Write "around" the recipe, say what you liked, or didn't like, about it, but if you like someone's work, direct your readers to their page, don't just nick their stuff. But to take someone else's copyright work and post it on your site, and then plaster the "©" symbol everywhere.... well, that's just nasty.
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