Archive for October, 2010
Deshabhimani gets way too abhimani after plagiarising a picture
In an interesting twist, not only did Deshabhimani, a leading Malayalam language daily, publish a picture from the blog post of Cranium Bolts, they also seem to think that it’s their LEGAL right to do so! Read the account of Cranium Bolts for more. Such cases should be definitely taught a legal lesson by suing them in court.
Website with Plagiarised Content
There is a website by the name of history-of-india.net This site is filled with plagiarised content. Infact, one of my article on Akbar that was published in Encyclopedia of Leadership (Sage, 2004), and later on hosted by me at
http://www.i3pep.org/archives/2004/11/12/akbar/
has been copy pasted on the above mentioned site at
http://history-of-india.net/akbar_the_great.htm
I had brought up this matter when I found it at
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=152029
To top it, the owner of the plagiarising site goes by the name of ‘Satya’ ! I had somehow managed to get the email of that guy, and also wrote an email to him. The details of that correspondence I have put up on my site:
http://indiapoint.net/archives/2010/05/31/internet-plagiarism/
However, till date I find that the offending and plagiarising website continues to host my article without any attribution or link.
Also, the Copyright policy of my website, clearly says that no one is allowed to make copy of full content of any webpage and post it on another site.
Anup Mukherjee
indiapoint.net