Posts Tagged ‘online plagiarism
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.
Success case – Rediff steals uses photograph without permission
Arun who writes on Paintedstork.com got a shocker when he saw that Rediff had used one of his images without permission. He followed up with them and it seems he’s getting credit as well as compensation for the image used without permission. Let’s hope the compensation is making up for the damages caused (now that image has been “sold” to correct the theft and can not be used under other licenses, hence causing loss to owner)
Stolen image:
Original image:
Snapdeal does a “Snap steal”
In the latest case of online plagiarism SnapDeal stole Paavani’s “All rights reserved” image and used it on their website, complete with her watermark on the image! And of course without any permission because as always Snapdeal thought they would never get caught and that everything on the internet is for free. Have net, will steal.
Perhaps they are unaware that plagiarism is a legal offence and can snap them a deal of a fine of upto 2 lakhs and/or imprisonment for 6 months.
Paavani has written to them, however it seems Snapdeal isn’t as snappy in professional communication as they are in snapping up steals. Paavani has blogged about it here.
We await an update from Paavani. Following are her original image and snapdeal’s stolen image, which of course they quietly removed but forgot that computers have print screen key these days.
