Friday, March 5, 2010

Barbell Shrug

In 2000 (and on a few other occasions) I published and claimed copyright on this exercise description (bolding added now):

Barbell Shrug :

With a medium overhand grip – shrug the shoulders as high as possible maintaining straight arms throughout the technique.

I was conducting research and I came upon the following exercise in a publication copyright claimed by another 'author' at a subsequent date (bolding added):

Barbell Shrug :

With a medium overhand grip – shrug the shoulders as high as possible maintaining straight arms throughout the technique.

And I said to myself: “That looks familiar!” So I cross-referenced it and I said to myself: “Wow! No wonder that looked familiar!”

I noted that the use of this description was in the absence of credits or references to the origin or permission to use from the original author (myself), and that the 'author' claimed copyright....

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