I’ve seen people post articles from other people’s blogs in their entirety on their own sites, without saying where they got it or whether they had permission to use it. Simply saying Joe Blow wrote this article is not enough–even providing a link to Joe Blow’s website may not be enough.

I’m not commenting on this case in particular, but on the issue as a whole. We would all do well to err on the side of caution when it comes to other people’s intellectual property.

Sincerely,
Lisa A. Shiel
Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC
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Michigan Upper Peninsula Bigfoot Organization

They got a pretty good website too, and apparently some good field people.

Sucks.

I liked it better when it was a non profit research organization.

The BFRO seems to have spawned into a travel and tourism company only interested in promoting camping trips for paying customers.

The bottom line for the organization seems to have changed from proving the existence of Bigfoot to the financial profit of a certain individual.

To make the observation that the footage shown on this site was the “real deal” is not only laughable but should be criminal. It seems that the person making that remark is not looking for the real deal, he is looking for the “right deal.”

But part of that being scientific is opening things up to peer review. Sharing it. Chewing on it. THEN publishing/presenting it. Sometimes this can take years. And, then, after it has withstood those years of probing by a number of individuals. Then you get to stand up and say “I did it”. “I was one of them.” And guess what? You’ll get your book deals then. You’ll get your spots on Leno and Letterman. You’ll get way more than a bunch of geeks talking about you on the internet.

And you’ll get your filthy lucre.

This, for all its warts, and its compatriot sites out there in the ether, are the closest thing to peer review journals this field has at the moment. All you have to do, if you have the legitimate, definitive proof, is be patient, and everything else that comes from being involved in such a momentous discovery will come to you.

The rest of the folks will be satisfied that they weren’t seeing things. That they didn’t dream it. Or satisfied with their small role in shedding light into the depths of our own ignorance. With knowing, and protecting, another of God’s creatures. The other seekers, the other hunters, they’ll be relegated to footnotes. You’ll get your 15 minutes and be as forgotten as the man who discovered the mountain gorilla to everyone but the cryptozoology geeks and forteana aficionados who got the whole ball rolling. Such is the way of things, and most folks wouldn’t fight that.

That is, unless you’re just out to drag things out. To profit off the mystery. Then you might be more defensive. Maybe.

The location of the pancake fiasco is pretty much an open secret on the web. Biscardi sure spent some time trying to chase it down.

I have wondered if the video actually depicts some homeless or mentally ill person who is being made sport of. I hope not, but the squabble it has caused leads me to believe that someone is worried about being exposed for fraud.

Obviously they are going to get favorable feedback from their own members at the BFRO but after reading real and unbiased opinions here they could have gotten spooked.

It all sounds frivolous to me and I can’t see where Craig has done anything wrong.

Sounds like a ploy to control and perpetuate another hoax.

The settlement agreement was NOT confidential. While the other side pushed for this, we did not agree to it. We did agree to not disclose any of the confidential information regarding the video, such as the location it was filmed or the people involved, other than Moneymaker and Erickson. We agreed not to post THE settlement agreement online. I can discuss it and even paraphrase, but not quote it.

As far as the confidential information regarding the location and individuals involved, that information is all public record. You just have to know where to look.