Friday, March 5, 2010

Supine DB fly

In 1999 (and on a few other occasions) I published and claimed copyright on this exercise description (bolding added now):

Supine DB fly :

Similar to the above but lying on your back (supine). Start with your hands above you and then lower them at right angles to the body. Keep the elbows slightly bent and don’t allow this elbow angle to change during the movement. Pause at the bottom, then raise the DB’s up 1/3 of the way. Pause again, lower back up down to the bottom, pause again, and lift all the way up. This is one rep.

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):

Supine DB fly :

Similar to the above but lying on your back (supine). Start with your hands above you and then lower them at right angles to the body. Keep the elbows slightly bent and don’t allow this elbow angle to change during the movement. Pause at the bottom, then raise the DB’s up 1/3 of the way. Pause again, lower back up down to the bottom, pause again, and lift all the way up. This is one rep.

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 one 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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