cooksourced 

Plagiarizing content and republishing it as your own, as Cooks Source magazine allegedly did to blogger Monica Gaudio, as recounted on her Live Journal.

Bonus points if you also tell the person you lifted the work from that they should be grateful to you for editing their original.

-Dude! You can't turn that paper into to your comparative web class. You cooksourced it from Daring Fireball.

--Yes, but I edited that jerks words and made it better, so it's all good.

cooksourced by Guy Grand November 5, 2010

cooksourced 

Stealing copyrighted material without contacting or compensating the original author.

Wow, great poem, Dave! You actually wrote that?" "No, I cooksourced it from Billy Collins on the Internet to impress a girl.

cooksourced by Sedagive November 6, 2010

cooksource 

To fail to give or trace the source for while conducting oneself in a self-righteous manner.

Related forms:

cooksourcing, cooksourced

"I had to cooksource my research paper to meet the deadline. The dude I stole it from should be grateful that I'm using his work."

Synonyms:
1. plagiarize

2. rip off

cooksource by theEdmo November 5, 2010

Cook Sourced 

When someone steals something of yours, then expects you to thank them for it.

"But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn't "lift" your whole article and put someone else's name on it! It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of... If you took offence and are unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally. Now it will work well for your portfolio. For that reason, I have a bit of a difficult time with your requests for monetary gain... We put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me! I never charge young writers for advice or rewriting poorly written pieces, and have many who write for me... ALWAYS for free!" -- letter to blogger Monica Gaudio over the theft of her article from the thief

Monica... ya dun been cook sourced.

Cook Sourced by the.real.captain.obvious November 5, 2010

Cookssourced 

To reprint or reproduce, with attribution and while adding mistakes, a copyrighted work. If confronted by the owner of the creative work, it is customary to demand payment from them for the added errors.

I know. It's already been Cookssourced. In a New Yorker cartoon. I have to pay them $10 because they spelled my name wrong.

Cookssourced by indignantwriter November 5, 2010

cooksource 

To blatantly plagiarize content for your own use.

I've got a long article to write for tomorrow, but I'm so tired I think I'll just cooksource it.

cooksource by Billsources November 5, 2010

cooksource 

To plagiarize without shame from an internet author, as Cooks Source online magazine did from Monica Gaudio. Cooks Source‘s October 2010 issue contained a copy of Gaudio's article "A Tale of Two Tarts," re-edited and named "As American As Apple Pie-Isn't."

The editor of Cooks Source, Judith Griggs, refused the Gaudio's request for an apology on Facebook, a printed apology in the magazine and $130 donation (which turns out to be about $0.10 per word of the original article) to be given to the Columbia School of Journalism.

You totally cooksourced that movie description from IMDB. We can't use it- they'd sue us!

cooksource by Valgirl November 6, 2010