Comments on: Joe Clark’s Cranky About Copyright

By: One Who Knows

One Who Knows — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:46:32 +0000

Dan Grossman: “I sent him a friendly e-mail asking about it and got a very rude reply.”

Consider yourself lucky. Pity that Joe Clark knows his stuff but is tainted by a toxic social ineptitude.

By: JaneRadriges

JaneRadriges — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:20:23 +0000

Great post! I’ll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software!

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:01:46 +0000

Well, after I made the donation, I found that there was no way Joe would know who donated or where to send the promised draft chapters and such.

I sent him a friendly e-mail asking about it and got a very rude reply.

I sure won’t be sharing the site with anyone else now.

By: raena

raena — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:37:08 +0000

thebobweb, I’m aware of the kind of scam you’re talking about, and this really isn’t the same thing. You might or might not be aware that Joe is already a published author and well-known to the Web development community.

As you can see, your comment did in fact come through. I can assure you we’re not a promotional partner behind his book—if we were, there’d be a bit more than a 350 word post about it.

Thanks for stopping by.

By: thebobweb

thebobweb — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:54:41 +0000

This has been done a million times following the exploitation model of publishing a poem in a book with 9,999 other unknowns, which the profiteers never clarify upfront. Let’s make a movie with 10,000 exploited “producers” who in turn enjoy such great benefit as seeing their name in a “Special Thanks” end-credit-scroll, each of whom naively paid $100 to one more capitalist. Go ahead, Joe, make their day, take their money, and run! This comment will escape the “moderation queue” only if “sitepoint” itself is not a promotional partner behind this Joe, er, knock-off capitalist.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:47:22 +0000

I like his style, just made my donation to the book effort. :)

By: artemis

artemis — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:18:40 +0000

Hmm is that the final or a working title? Reminds me of the crankies which is perhaps not a great thing in the UK. I like the funding model. If it works it could be more influential than the end product.

By: scotthoff

scotthoff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Pretty entertaining to read thus far. Did some quick browsing. Should probably be an entertaining read if nothing else!

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:14:49 +0000

This is a nice one. The Cranky Copyright Book of Joe Clark is really a good one to become a creator . TO know about writing text, drawing graphics, taking photos, or building blog themes, copyright is an important concept that affects us all. Thanks for this type of posting.