BSURadioGeek said:
DeVasher said:
GetOffMyLawn said:
There's this thing called the internet it has a bunch of stuff on it you should check it out
There's also this thing called theft. (in the real world you go to jail, or get sued)
There's also this thing called Plagiarism (in college you get expelled)
They are sort of cousins.
Are you saying WKLU is getting traffic report information off the internet and claiming it as their own work?
No, I think he was saying do some research.
BSURadioGeek You must have dropped the business ethics class at Ball State and forgot to add something.
I did some research...here is a sampling from the copyright notices from several sources that provide traffic information on the internet for Indianapolis:
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