It was brought to my attention this morning that I have posted a poem I recieved via email without permission of the author. The poem was titled on my blog A Woman's Day.
The author of this poem and I have exchanged emails and I have obtained permission from her to keep the poem with making some corrections that had been altered through the lines of emails.
I am posting about this here because we are all guilty of posting jokes/poems/stories and the like where it states at the bottom "author unknown".
After this, I know I'll be more careful of how quickly I am to copy and paste to my blog for fear that I could be using someone else's work and not giving them credit. As a friend said to me today, I'd not like someone using my writings without being given the correct credit.
By the time anyone goes back to refresh their minds of what post I'm talking about I'll have made the corrections to have it back to it's orginial written form along with the author's name on the end of that entry.
MISTAKES ARE INEVITABLE ~ MAKE THEM, DEAL WITH THEM AND THEN MOVE ON
This is a good point, Jamie. I need to be more careful as well. WichiDude chose not to post something because he couldn't give the attribution. I posted something recently that has been floating around the Internet for a couple of years, and I SHOULD have confirmed the author and requested permission first. Perhaps I need to consider editing that entry until I get permission.
First off... I so LOVE that strawberry sig! I have begun to find the wonders of PSP....there it was sitting on my pc for a few months already. (maybe, just maybe I'll get me some cute sigs too!)
Now, to the point of the post, yes - mistakes happen. When you do make a mistake and are corrected as in your case then terrific. With so much text on the web, copyright becomes tricky,and who knows what is or isn't copyrighted anymore. I would hope that written poems, stories, etc be shared with reference to the author if at all possible.