Posted on 07/13/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Filmmaker Michael Moore, famed for his propagandistic left-slanted portrayals of America in such films as Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Sicko, is under fire for lifting the work of a writer from the Knoxville News Sentinel and reposting it on his own site in total despite that copyright laws disallow such a practice.
On his site Random Mumblings the News Director of Innovation for the Knoxville News Sentinel, Jack Lail, reported that Michael Moore lifted an entire story and its accompanying video production from his newspaper's website and reposted it all on MichaelMoore.com. Not only did he lift the whole story (not just excerpts, but the whole thing) and take the video to repost it on his own site, Michael Moore did not add any new content and even re-processed the News Sentinel's video to remove their logo from the screen.
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.)...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Not surprised at all...he lies in his films...and he lies everytime he moves his lips.
What a worthless piece of.......
While learning that MM cannot form an independent thought is not shocking, the fact that he is so arrogant as to not even give credit to the creator is astounding.
Just when you thought the Floating Fat man couldn’t dig any deeper into the sludge, he goes and lowers his own bar.
I’m convinced that GOD gave us The TEN COMMANDMENTS as a forewarning about democrats.
Moore needs to meet his own Gom Jabbar. Wielded by Sarah Palin.
I doubt he will be brought to justice. He’s a darling of the media left.
Regards
First he steals everyone else’s food, then their work.
Thank you for the ping. So he wasn’t stealing porkchops?
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