What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else’s written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one’s own without adequate acknowledgement. Unlike cases of forgery, in which the authenticity of the writing, document, or some other kind of object itself is in question, plagiarism is concerned with the issue of false attribution. – pR@tz
You just saw a demonstration on “how to plagiarize” . That section was taken from a Wikipedia article on plagiarism. Plagiarism is a common phenomenon among the newbie bloggers. But what you are going to read in a few moments will be the best ever example of plagiarism in India.
Few days back it was first noticed by a Malayalam blogger,
This is the second time in history of Malayalam blogosphere that they are dealing with plagiarists. First time it was against the internet giant, Yahoo! and now it is kerals.com.
Really unfortunate, Kerals.com. You did it wrong, right from the beginning and if you are behaving like this, you are really going to pay for it. Lets look how will the law react to Kerals.com, if any of the bloggers take it to the court. The act of plagiarism a punishable criminal offense as per Section 63 of Copyright Act, 1957, India according to which you are punishable for a minimum of 6 months imprisonment and Rs. 50,000 fine and if you are found committing the same crime again you are punishable for 1 year imprisonment and 1 lakh Rupee fine.
He/she/they are gonna be a pauper and going to count the bars for rest of his/her/their if whole of the Malayalam blogger community respond to the issue in their real strength.
Plagiarists can loot your blog too as long as it is online. So start responding, put up a copyright notice now itself. I have made my blogs available to public using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which allows anyone to use the contents in my blog wherever they want in any form, but they should attribute the original author (from where they took the content) and pass over the rights they enjoyed to others.
More on the issue:- (1) Banned from reading my content by രാജ് നീട്ടിയത്ത്
(2) Content theft by Kerals.com by Thulasi Kakkat
(3) Bootlegging bloggers posts, Shame on you Kerals dot com by മയൂര
(4) Are you a thief Mr. www.kerals.com by കണ്ണൂസ്
(5) ചോദിച്ചാല് തരുമായിരുന്നല്ലോ കേരള്സേ… by സതീശ് മാക്കോത്ത് sathees makkoth
(6) Content Theft by Kerals.com by അരവിന്ദ് :: aravind
ഈ വിഷയവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ആദ്യ പോസ്റ്റ് ( അനില്ശ്രീ പിന്നീട് ഭീഷണിയെത്തുടര്ന്ന് ഒഴിവാക്കി ) ഇട്ടത്
സജിയാണ് , ഭീഷണികള്ക്കൊന്നും വഴങ്ങാതെ ഇപ്പോഴും അതവിടെ കിടക്കുന്നുണ്ട് , ഈ വിഷയത്തിലുള്ള പോസ്റ്റുകളുടെ ലിങ്കുകളില് എന്തുകൊണ്ടും ഉള്പ്പെടുത്തേണ്ടതായിരുന്നു ആ പോസ്റ്റ്. പിന്നേയുമുണ്ട് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല് പോസ്റ്റുകള് കട്ടെടുത്തത് വല്യമ്മായിയുടേ ബ്ലോഗില് നിന്നാണ് , വളരെ ശക്തമായ നിലപാടെടുത്ത ബ്ലോഗറാണ് ഇഞ്ചിപ്പെണ്ണ് പോസ്റ്റുകളും അവര് ഇട്ടിട്ടുണ്ട് ഇതൊന്നും കാണാതെ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്തവ ചിലതിട്ടത് ഓരോരുത്തരുടേ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം തന്നെ!
The right to modify or distribute the work commercially (Licensing) really allows them to copy paste material. I feel the issue is beyond Licensing… It has more to do with etiquette in the Blogging world.
It is not the problem with redistributing. For me, I don’t mind people taking my material, even without consent… the only thing is they should attribute it and share it alike (as told in the license) …. you can even use it commercially!!!….though this is not the case with most of the other bloggers….they publish their creations with more restrictive licenses, and yes, they are valid in India.. if the issue is taken to court… damn sure, kerals.com will get punished for the CRIME they did…
hah! ee vishayam njan inna arinje. njanum posti. ente spirit kettiyathu injipenninodu avar cheyyunna themmaditharama. grr.