How To Sue A Dead Man

How To Sue a Dead Man…

Ripped off…or just plain flattered? https://ianbrowne.ampbk.com/

A true account of what had been happening to my work, at a time when it was up for grabs.

 I was shocked when watching at times word-for-word my own format, my own themes, and my own research… coming to life on another person’s television series. My blood ran cold. I was astonished. And it’s not the first time this has happened.

 I formulate my own story routine. When this is copied, borrowed, pillaged, it is painfully obvious…especially when I’m ‘directly quoted’. Where/when I research I show this, and often describe the researchers in the story, while sharing my work with those researchers internationally.

Now these ‘borrowers’ are famous people, but making ease of a script; a format for a TV series, I have had my work ‘’borrowed’ and with no credit arriving. In the Mekong chapter of my book What the Monsoon Knows I touch on this.

A feather in my hat, my work is good enough to be made into television series?

Should I be flattered?

Well yes, but known for their wit, the insights that appear crafty ….were mine!

That annoys me, but at least I can gather in kudos for my book What the Monsoon Knows, especially as my formats at the time of the original eBook publications were ‘original’, mine, and tracing where these themes originate ─ especially as my very words, themes, topics  and actions all of which come to life on ‘their’ TV shows─ is hardly difficulty… crudely obvious in fact.

 Not long after a British TV series aired with my format, the producer for a popular Channel 4 UK TV series approached me to do some groundwork for their second series. I enjoyed that, while the ‘other network’ didn’t even mention me or my work in their credits… nor did the popular US series, who used one of my eBook formats throughout on a journey through a country in SE Asia. My 'words' also rocked up on one of their other shows, making me wonder just how many of my stories have arrived to television series. An SBS TV journal also borrowed some of my work on the architecture of Yangon, Myanmar, leading into a joke of mine on the British Raj. That was fine, they didn't hide from this, and as I had used & referenced an Oz ABC journo's work to help formulate mine, I was happy to help others too.

I used to willingly share my work for the betterment of societies and ecosystems in struggling nations and nowadays those eBooks arrive to my book, and as they have a copyright attached:

“don’t even try, where is your credibility?”

WHAT THE MONSOON KNOWS https://ianbrowne.ampbk.com/