I wrote recently about copyright law, in response to a magazine editor who was accused of stealing an article on apple pie and defended herself by saying everything on the Internet is public domain. That magazine, Cooks Source, is apparently closing after it and its advertisers have received hundreds of hostile emails and phone calls. [...]

Last week a blogger discovered her online article on the origins of apple pie in a regional print magazine called Cooks Source. She had not consented to this reprint and emailed the editor for a written apology and a $.10/word donation to the Columbia School of Journalism by way of penalty.

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