The reason we're pursuing legal action against @PaulCogan is that he keeps plagiarizing us WORD FOR WORD. He copy-pastes our tweets and pretends they're his. He copy-pastes our articles into Twitter threads and pretends he wrote them. It's textbook word for word plagiarism.
Cogan has plagiarized Palmer Report (word for word) more than a dozen times over the past year; it's not just some one-off mistake on his part.
We have repeatedly asked him to cease and desist, publicly and privately. He's had plenty of warning.
We have repeatedly asked him to cease and desist, publicly and privately. He's had plenty of warning.
Moreover, Cogan routinely posts links to various other political news sites. He clearly knows how to post an article link, and regularly does so. Best we can tell, Palmer Report is the ONLY site whose content he steals and presents as if it were his own work.
We have no idea why Cogan has singled us out as the only news site he steals content from. But he's gained 24,000 Twitter followers partly by stealing our content and pretending he wrote it. The content he steals from us often ends up being his most-liked tweets.
Perhaps @paulcogan believes that because he's not in the U.S., we can't get to him. But Canada has intellectual properly laws as well. And frankly, Twitter should have banned him by now. His plagiarism is de facto impersonation, which is against Twitter terms of service.
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