damned_fool's definitions

Griggs

1. One who co-opts online content in the belief that any online content is public domain, free for the taking.

2. One who collects advertising revenue or litigates based on claims that another's work is their own.

3. An individual who plagiarizes wholesale, and derides original content as worthless and/or inferior.

4. One who doesn't understand copyright or licensing,

and engages in provocative speech and gestures to defend their position.

Once upon a time, an ant worked had all summer storing food.

Then one day a Griggs came along, claimed the food
was all theirs, and lived all winter on it.

by damned_fool November 7, 2010