RoadsteRob@aol.com wrote:
Rob, I too support your efforts. It makes me glad I was unable to supply
extra photos for this article as the folks at GRM asked me to do. The
fact is that most of us who write professionally get out info from
various sources, many of which are copyrighted. While gleaning info from
a copyrighted source is not of itself plagiarism, what you have
indicated certainly would fall in that category as far as i am
concerned. As a publisher, I would not knowingly have published this
article. And had I done so unknowingly, I would have published an
apology, paid you for the article, requested the original author refund
his payment, and sued him if he failed to repay me. I would also never
use that author again.
I wish I could say this sort of thing is unusual, but it's more common
than most folks realize. In fact just a few weeks ago I got my copy of
the Summer 2000 issue of Z Club Magazine, a 38 page, full-color, glossy
magazine published by the Z Club of Great Britain. In it was an article
on US Z car owner Mark Dent and his twin 240Zs. Imagine my surprise when
I start to read the article and find it is almost word-for-word a direct
copy of an article I ran as the cover story in issue #10. Now to be fair
Mark had asked me if it was okay to use the text or photos from that
story for an article in the Z Club Magazine. And I had told him it was
fine as long as it was made very clear that the material came from Z Car
& Classic Datsun Magazine and that a subscription card or subscription
info was included in the same issue the story was published in. Sadly,
no mention of ZCCD was included anywhere in that issue. And to top it
off an ad I designed at no charge for one of my advertisers was also run
virtually unchanged in the same issue. It seems Z Club Magazine must now
see itself as competing with me.
>
> Cheers Aaron and thanks for your support. You are not the first and I'm sure
> you won't be the last.
>
> I have indeed let GRM know and I await their reply with interest.
>
> In a message dated 7/3/00 11:02:36 PM GMT Daylight Time, anielsen@csusm.edu
> writes:
>
> << Dear Rob,
>
> I share your shock and dismay about this obvious case of plagiarism. I'm a
> professor of literature, and what this "author" did is quite simply
> illegal. He has made little attempt to reinvent your material, and while
> it's true that many writers draw from many sources, this case is obviously
> one of plagiarism. Have you let the editors of the magzine know? I think
> you should, and I think you should follow up on this matter as well.
>
> Best,
> Aaron
> '69 1600
> San Diego
> >>
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