129. Associated Content and My Anti-Valentines

These are the Valentines others seem to think are theirs!!! See article below.

I booked a content call for publishing “Anti-Valentine” poems and after I submitted them, Associated Content wrote back this reply:

"Your submission, Valentine's Day for the Broken Hearted, has been declined by Associated Content.

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So this is what I replied:


It is impossible that what I have written on images appear somewhere else, they have been in my folder for 35 years or so, even before internet and computers were invented. Are you sure you are a real person who has sent me this message?

Regards,
Eva Ulian
----- Original Message -----
From: Associated Content
To: eva.ulian@btanet.it
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: Your Content Has Been Reviewed

This is why I have published this, my own original work, on my blog. And indeed, I would be very curious to see these people who are trying to pass off my stuffy old poems of 35 years ago as their own, if such dare approach. 

What makes me laugh is that even though these poems are old, stuffy and out of date, there are actually people out there who think they are worth stealing.