Friday, March 5, 2010

Reverse Curls

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

Reverse Curls :

Description – lay on your back; if using an incline or chin bar, you will need your arms to hold on to the grips available; if you are doing knee ups on the ground, arms out on the ground at 90 degrees to the trunk. Starting in a ‘set’ pelvis position (hold the pelvis position throughout) lift the knees to the chest by rotating through the abdominal region.

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):

Reverse Curls :

Description – lay on your back; if using an incline or chin bar, you will need your arms to hold on to the grips available; if you are doing knee ups on the ground, arms out on the ground at 90 degrees to the trunk. Starting in a ‘set’ pelvis position (hold the pelvis position throughout) lift the knees to the chest by rotating through the abdominal region.

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 five 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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