{"id":4891,"date":"2006-01-25T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2006-01-25T07:29:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:29:27","slug":"the-sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4891","title":{"rendered":"the sincerest form of flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m ego-surfing as usual, and what do I come across? A term paper about an article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/levine_internet&#038;civil_society.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that I wrote&#8211;for sale at $31.95. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academon.com\/lib\/paper\/53825.html\">summary and excerpt<\/a> of the term paper are poorly written and highly inaccurate. Can I sue? Should I write a better paper about myself and sell it? If a wildly inaccurate summary of my article is worth $31.95 on the open market, can I start selling the actual article for, say, $40? (Right now, it&#8217;s free.) Should I be offended that people are willing to pay $31.95 not to have to read and write about my article? Does a plagiarized term paper count as a citation of my work? Why does my own article rank lower on Google than a site that sells a lousy term paper about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m ego-surfing as usual, and what do I come across? A term paper about an article (pdf) that I wrote&#8211;for sale at $31.95. The summary and excerpt of the term paper are poorly written and highly inaccurate. Can I sue? Should I write a better paper about myself and sell it? If a wildly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}