I've been following this thread closely today as it was my blog that the post was copied from. Billy has it right: I should have been credited with writing the words and taking the photographs. To publish my work in its entirety (in its complete entirety, links and all) and to not credit me in any way is to steal from me. To be copying and pasting information from any source and posting it here-- posting it here without attribution to the original source-- is stealing. People write on and for the web to make their voices heard, and I would have welcomed your comments on my blog to my post. However, I wasn't given that opportunity since my work was posted here without even my knowledge.

Had I been contacted by this site owner, I would have agreed to his using my work (the text and the photos) with only a few slight modifications. However, I wasn't contacted. About any of it. My blog is not strictly copyrighted; it has a Creative Commons license. This means that I am happy to share my work as long as I'm credited for the work and as long as the work is not modified in any way. None of this happened. Now, had the site owner contacted me, I would have agreed to the use of my work. I would have, however, taken out the links to my colleagues and other academic professionals (those people have nothing to do with hockey and how have more interest in the cultural studies aspect of that original post). I would have also taken out some personal reflections on my first hockey game . . . personal reflections that have more to do with my academic work than it has to do with the sport of hockey. But again, that should have been my choice.

--Billie (oh, and I'm female . . . not male, as many posters have assumed)