Friday, March 5, 2010

Slow curl ups

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

Slow curl ups :

Description – lay on your back, knees bent to about 90 degrees and feet flat on the floor. Curl up the trunk to a full sitting position

Level One – Cheat ups – slow down

Level Two – Cheat ups – slow down plus isometric stops on the lower

Level Three – Reverse Curl Downs

Level Four – Slow up / Slow down

Level Five – Slow up / slow down plus isometric stops on the lower.

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):

Slow curl ups :

Description – lay on your back, knees bent to about 90 degrees and feet flat on the floor. Curl up the trunk to a full sitting position

Level One – Cheat ups – slow down

Level Two – Cheat ups – slow down plus isometric stops on the lower

Level Three – Reverse Curl Downs

Level Four – Slow up / Slow down

Level Five – Slow up / slow down plus isometric stops on the lower

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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