Well here is one thread about the "Karma Bombs" poem that came up in mere seconds after a search of the archives:
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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/B_KPJsZ2X44/wokEOOqItfMJ
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Cook did ''admit'' it, though he called it ''borrowed'':
/The Plagiarist/
''Who the hell is Michael Cook? Someone on this group tried to plagiarise
Dockery? '' -Gerard Ian Lewis
Michael D Cook is a copyright thief who stole my poem ''Karma Bombs'' (among
many other thefts) and made a recording of it, which he placed on his
website
without credit to me... which made his theft plagiarism, trying to pass the
work off as his own. After this, Cook was driven from these newsgroups in
embarrassment.
By Rik Roots' definition it was plagiarism... I can give you the quote, if
you want it, or don't remember it.
Here's the basics on the theft/copyright abuse/plagiarism of my poem "Karma
Bombs'':
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How do you feel about photographs of poets used without permission (stolen),
pasted on likewise stolen porno images, then used on websites hosted by the
"creator" of these works for months, then hosted by PJR himself for months,
perhaps even now somewhere? How do you feel about someone taking a complete
poem, recording it, then posting the Mp3 on his website, without any credit
to the poet who created it? PJR applauded and defended both of these acts
of copyright infringement/theft.
Very /active support/. Here's some of the details on the theft of my "Karma
Bombs" poem, in
exchange with the thief Michael Cook, where he denies "stealing" and
posting one of my poems, "Karma Bombs":
http://www.archive.org/details/KarmaBombsByWillDockery
... he wrote that he only "borrowed" it..:
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From: Will Dockery
Subject: "Karma Bombs" by Will Dockery [Mp3]
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.pagan, rec.arts.poems
Date: 2003-12-22 14:36:49 PST
From "Karma Bombs. by Will Dockery" read by Michael Cook:
http://www.net-kooks.no-ip.info/images/Karma%20Bombs.mp3
Message 2 in thread
Subject: Re: "Karma Bombs" by Will Dockery [Mp3]
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.pagan, rec.arts.poems
Date: 2003-12-22 15:24:03 PST
http://www.net-kooks.no-ip.info/images/Karma%20Bombs.mp3
You hapless dullard!
One, you are stealing my bandwidth.
I'd rather you just took the recording
and post it to your own server.
(i only have 368 up)
Two, the voice is computer generated
mdc
Message 3 in thread
Subject: Re: "Karma Bombs" by Will Dockery [Mp3]
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.pagan, rec.arts.poems
Date: 2003-12-22 15:37:31 PST
http://www.net-kooks.no-ip.info/images/Karma%20Bombs.mp3
You hapless dullard!
One, you are stealing my bandwidth.
Hey! You "stole" my copyrighted poem! I prefer to think of it as a
"cover",
and on my Lulu.com release, you get full credit.
I'd rather you just took the recording
and post it to your own server.
(i only have 368 up)
This has been done, more-or-less. What music do *you* envision for the
poem?
We'll create our own, similar to the one already performed, but I'm
curious
http://www.lulu.com/content/32109
Two, the voice is computer generated
mdc
I knew that, of course, but I think it's kind of fun to go into the
Google archives with *another* "Collaboration with Michael Cook... by the
way, when will you be putting the "Oz" photo-story back up, at least long
enough for me to copy/paste it to a more permanent site?
Will
Message 4 in thread
Subject: Re: "Karma Bombs" by Will Dockery [Mp3]
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.pagan, rec.arts.poems
Date: 2003-12-22 16:00:54 PST
"Will Dockery" wrote in message
Hey! You "stole" my copyrighted poem! I prefer to think of it as a
"cover",
and on my Lulu.com release, you get full credit.
As the recording clearly demonstrates, a poem I did not steal, only
borrowed
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This was years ago, clearly showing Michael Cook has a habit of "borrowing"
[translation: stealing] copyrighted poetry, images and other works created
by other hands, to call his own, elsewhere in the archives there are
countless moments of PJR applauding Cook for his thefts, copyright
infringements and plagiarisms, meanwhile making such hypocritical statements
as this one, when his agenda calls for it:
"Don't imagine that this is some kind of trivial Usenet flame war in which
the people who are against "us" can reasonably side with [the thief] because
he's also against "us". Net-abuse of this kind affects *all* of us,
whichever "side" we're usually on, and the abuser needs to be ostracised
whether he says flattering things about you or not."
-Peter J. Ross on copyright theft/net abuse.
Comments are welcome.
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It even has commentary from Peter Ross.......
