Friday, March 5, 2010

Prone DB Row

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

Prone DB Row

Lay face down on a normal height bench, with a DB in each hand, palms facing inwards. Pull the dumbbells up as far as possible and retract the scapula fully. Slowly return to the start position.

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):

Prone DB row

Lay face down on a normal height bench, with a DB in each hand, palms facing inwards. Pull the dumbbells up as far as possible and retract the scapula fully. Slowly return to the start position.

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

And I came upon this description another two more times by the same 'author' in different publications.

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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