There has been a spate of incidents recently when the Indian mainstream media has thought it convenient to plagiarize from the blogging community. The content stolen has not only been blog posts but also photos which they publish without due acknowledgement.
Few bloggers are considering establishing an organization/ community to fight against such theft and give bloggers a stronger voice in protecting their content. Express your opinion in the comments below and let us know if you would like to join such an organization. This would not be a DesiPundit venture but we would strongly support it.
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Dilip Muralidaran
Oct 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm | #
I started a blog recently to collect all incidents of internet plagarism by the media, especially image theft since i’ve been affected twice.
http://www.indianpressarethieves.blogspot.com
Mona
Oct 7th, 2008 at 9:06 pm | #
I would definitely like to see an end to the theft of blogger content. People should stop just blatantly copying the pictures and materials that the bloggers publish.
Nikhil Narayanan
Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:33 am | #
Patrix,
One more here
http://thecookscottage.typepad.com/curry/2006/05/shivaji_market.html
-Nikhil
Manish Desai
Nov 18th, 2008 at 12:59 am | #
Yes…it should be.
I myself was sometimes using words from other blogs but then deleted my account as felt that we should write by self.
btw…taking 50 words maximum is allowed without even referring to author.
Now I am also worried to blog sometimes due to plagiarism
Regina
Dec 7th, 2008 at 9:29 pm | #
This is really bad. I know of one girl whose picture was posted in the newspaper with such bad headlines for an article she commented on. People thought that because of the title she’s one of those she was criticizing. What can possibly protect bloggers if blogging itself can’t be controlled?
RJ
Dec 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pm | #
Not just the blogging community, I’m afraid. Take a look at this entry on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YellowMonkey/Times_of_India
Many blogs and Wikipedia are in public domain, or are covered by GFDL, or CreativeCommons licenses; however, what irritates me is that the mainstream media steal content wholesale, fail to give credit and also conveniently cover the stolen content within the jurisdiction of their other copyrighted content. It’s outlandish.