Reply #5: actually, another DUer sent Julius over here, thinking

[gkhouston]

that perhaps one of us might have inside access to someone at Countdown.

Copyright exists from the time a work is created and a notice need not be attached for protection to apply. That said, the content is question is essentially a dateline of highly public events, so it's entirely possible that the staff at MSNBC constructed their own timeline independently. Since KO hasn't been reticent about crediting other bloggers, I'm thinking that's the case. As outraged as J.C. is, it sounds very much like "they stole my script!" which is an old, old story in Hollywood and a lot of the time that's not what happened.