Blasphemy or Plagiarism?

[Gatorgabe]

McSweeney's website is promoting a book by Dan Nelson that attempts to list the name of every single Metal band in existence ... I think some of you will recognize the list ... can anyone tell where he copied it from????? Check it out ....

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/one-authors-quest-for-an/

 

[The Ozzman]

Metal-Archives FUCK YEAH

 

[Vitor]

Falconbach

Death to false metal!

 

[Deicidal]

I was about to say Metal-Archives.

 

[XSASweet]

Well, it'd be cool to have it in book form.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Metal-Archives does not own any of the information they publish; it's just an aggregator of user-submitted info on bands. I don't believe that using the info from M-A to do something similar is really plagiarism (Metalseek pretty much has all the same info plus more/other stuff).

 

[cookiecutter]

Yeah it's not plagiarism but it's still kind of shitty to steal all that information and then pass it off as some kind of project he did just because people haven't heard of the website.

 

[cannibal corpse]

Yeah it's not plagiarism but it's still kind of shitty to steal all that information and then pass it off as some kind of project he did just because people haven't heard of the website.

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[V.V.V.V.V.]

I agree with that notion, of course.

 

[Jreg]

From the website:

Special thanks to Encyclopedia Metallum, which is a great website, and evidence of the powerful culture that drew me to the AKMB project in the first place. I had been amassing my list for six months before coming upon the site, but it was a great resource, and I’m grateful for everybody’s help in allowing the book to be as complete as possible. I have always seen the AKMB book as a specific physical artifact, a project in itself, and in no way do I intend it to--or believe it can--replace or compete with the Encyclopedia Metallum in any way. The omission of thanks in the book, as an ackowledgement of the enormous efforts made by EM and its readers to amass data, was by no means mean-spirited or intended to cause offense. -- DN

So, at least he's not pretending not to have used it for info. Still seems a little ridiculous though.

 

[waif]

As far as I can tell he just lists the band's name.
What's the point?

 

[Deicidal]

Why doesn't he just he just team up with Metallum and make the site in book form together??

 

[waif]

mostly because metal bands form, break up, and release every day so the book would be obsolete before it ever made it to print.