Archive for March 28th, 2007
Plagiarism plague
What would you do?
A commercial trade magazine ($32/yr) took one of my stories, acknowledged me as the original author, rewrote portions but added no new material and put it in their magazine and on their website. I did several interviews with experts who were hard to find and wrote a pretty good story on a new discovery that would benefit farmers. I own the copyright to the story and they didn’t ask and they didn’t pay me to use it.
It is tempting to either use someone else’s writing or make some cosmetic revisions and feel free to profit from it. But its wrong, illegal and adds nothing. Better by far to express your thoughts and research — even if poorly written.
Any ways I asked this publication (which may or may not make this theft a habit) to take the story off their site and compensate me for the use of my material.
So far I’ve been ignored.
What would you do?
Stumble It!
