Plagiarism in blogging - Have you ever been tempted?

Ah! M met lyrics santer :-P Pa plagia m kwar... mais mne deza met articles mne lir somewhere else... Mais m ti met source la... ti ena ene tifi 2 ans genius... Articles mne meter mais mne met source.... Sa zafer severus snape la si... mne met source...

Euhhh.... Je c pas... M penser ki kav copy mais pa pren credit la pu toi <_< c ene zafer ki m zamais fer... Always mention the source...

Plagiarism is something that Mauritians are very apt at... (just like piracy...)

& it's difficult to change the mentality - but Mauritian bloggers should do their best at keeping their content original & where copied, mention the source.

La, m completely agree ek toi carrotmadman....

i do paste/post some lyrics too, but everyone knows it's not from me, since I state the band/singer's name etc. it's not plagiarism as long as the source is clealy stated.

Plagiarism is a very severe act, I even consider it as a crime. That is why I've got the copyscape badge on my blog. c pa ki mo ecrir bne chef d'oeuvres lor mo blog mai i still value my words!

and it's not just a question of mauritian mentality franchement, pa kav met sa lor ledos mentaliter, partou ena sa. c juste bizin pa fr sa. sa dpane lor each individual blogger so mentaliter plito. mem si zot pa tro cone bne informal blogging laws dimune sipozer coner ki copier c pa bien!

Correct me if I am wrong but I think that some of your posts lack the link to their original source CarrotMadman. You should make them more visible.

Alala... lolll...

M kwar moi si m bizin met copy scape badge...

pu m bane zistwar ek poems :-P

wi c vrai! to bien bizin met sa badge la, zis pour prevent ki kikene copy to work. extra mat sa si to retrouve to work lor 1 lot dimune so blog.

thembb wrote:Correct me if I am wrong but I think that some of your posts lack the link to their original source CarrotMadman. You should make them more visible.

LOL... u see i'm a plagiarist...

Yeah, it's true my first posts were total plagiarism... but that was long time ago when i was making my steps into the blogging world.

Now, with all my posts i include all sources & links.

Anyway, i'll try to include all sources with those "unsourced posts"... Inform me if u see any "plagiarized" posts i missed...

carrotmadman6 wrote:Plagiarism is something that Mauritians are very apt at... (just like piracy...)
&
it's difficult to change the mentality - but Mauritian bloggers should
do their best at keeping their content original & where copied,
mention the source.

Check this people:

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/kimi-raikkonen-ferrari-f1-world.html
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7055442.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/england-6-15-south-africa.html
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7052822.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/brazilian-f1-gp-2007-final-showdown.html
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7045144.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/france-10-34-argentina.html
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7051512.stm

Mo pa ti pu poster ban links la. Mai kan tne dir "but Mauritian
bloggers should do their best at keeping their content original &
where copied, mention the source." mo pan cav tini. Enplus tone mem pa
specifier source. Instead tne met "Posted by carrotmadman6".

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap... :/

Jevin this is exactly what we meant. Some of our friends who know we are doing the reviews at MBB have mentioned those links and posts as well. They have advised us to look through this and point it out.

pu ma shi ena :-P Lor ti fifi matilda :-P

Jevin wrote:Check this people:
http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/kimi-raikkonen-ferrari-f1-world.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7055442.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/england-6-15-south-africa.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7052822.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/brazilian-f1-gp-2007-final-showdown.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7045144.stm

http://themediaguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/france-10-34-argentina.html
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7051512.stm

Mo pa ti pu poster ban links la. Mai kan tne dir "but Mauritian bloggers should do their best at keeping their content original &
where copied, mention the source." mo pan cav tini. Enplus tone mem pa specifier source. Instead tne met "Posted by carrotmadman6".

Ok, i forgot to put the source... I shouldn't make those mistakes anymore now - BigB is watching me (anyway, it was quite obvious that it was from BBC Sports - all my sports posts are from BBC Sports!) Thanks for the links - added them now!

The real thing i want to point is this - is copying "news-related" stuff called PLAGIARISM!?!?!!?! What's the purpose of a news report if it can't be shared!?!?!
Btw, i did add my own very small bits, & i had to search all those photos (& it took quite a lot of time & breaking copyright infringements along, since i had no permission to reproduce those hard-to-find images!)
I personally think those BBC reports don't contain enough pictures... so that's why i post with loads of pictures to show the action & how it really happened. Thanks for comparing those two links - now u folks can see the difference between the picture-less version & the one with photos!!!!

I think we have a great divergence over the definition of plagiarism - "Take the work or idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own." What i'm talking about is stuff like essays, poems, patents, reports, ideas, suggestions &... personal blog posts.
BUT NOT NEWS!!! News is meant to be shared! Otherwise we'll remain ignorant as cavemen...
If people could be sued for "news" plagiarism, then L'Express shoudn't copy those Reuters news & Le Matinal with those USA Today, India Times, blablabla...

The "posted by carrotmadman6"... that's permanent. I can't do anything with that coz it's in the template. Did u take it literally?? hahaa!

thembb wrote:Jevin this is exactly what we meant. Some of our friends who know we are doing the reviews at MBB have mentioned those links and posts as well. They have advised us to look through this and point it out.

Thanks for the support.

Copying anything word for word from a site is a copyright infringement. News from BBC is their property, you can quote, or copy but you should mention it was taken from BBC.

If you report the news as you have read on BBC but by using your own words, then it is allowed.

Moreover, I believe you are using adsense, you should read their program policies.


Jevin has pointed out something important here. what you are doing is plagiarism. You cannot run a blog by posting works of other press and news agencies and not mentioning the source. As for the photographs, you must mention the source as well.

What you can do from now on if you want to post like you have been doing so far, is mention the source for the news and photographs so that people will know it does not come from you.

When the reviewers at MBB looked through your blog, all they saw was professionalism. Little did they know about this. They saw no links to sources, nothing stating that this is not your own words.

carrotmadman6 wrote:
I think we have a great divergence over the definition of plagiarism - "Take the work or idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own." What i'm talking about is stuff like essays, poems, patents, reports, ideas, suggestions &... personal blog posts.
BUT NOT NEWS!!! News is meant to be shared! Otherwise we'll remain ignorant as cavemen...
If people could be sued for "news" plagiarism, then L'Express shoudn't copy those Reuters news & Le Matinal with those USA Today, India Times, blablabla...

For one: Reports? as in news reports? b c pa sa em ki tone meter lor to blog? lol

For two: "news is meant to be shared!" excuse me for laughing! mai to seriously penser ki BBC so bne words pou reach pli bien to the mass kan to post li lor to blog? hihi!

For three: "If people could be sued for "news" plagiarism, then L'Express shoudn't copy those Reuters news & Le Matinal with those USA Today, India Times, blablabla..." Ah mai non, bne journal com lexpress, weekend, etc, zot bizin pay reuters ou bne lezot la, ou bien zot dza ena 1 contrat permission de sa bne international news agencies la. ek remark bien ki zot mention zot source zot!

thembb wrote:Copying anything word for word from a site is a copyright infringement. News from BBC is their property, you can quote, or copy but you should mention it was taken from BBC.
If you report the news as you have read on BBC but by using your own words, then it is allowed.

That's what i've been doing - putting these posts & then commenting on it...except for these recent post where i forgot to put the source. But the problem is with my Blogger Template... whenever I quote anything, everything gets messed up. I've tried to put it in italics - but again some letters at the end of each line doesn't show up.

thembb wrote:Moreover, I believe you are using adsense, you should read their program policies.

Jevin has pointed out something important here. what you are doing is plagiarism. You cannot run a blog by posting works of other press and news agencies and not mentioning the source. As for the photographs, you must mention the source as well.
What you can do from now on if you want to post like you have been doing so far, is mention the source for the news and photographs so that people will know it does not come from you.
When the reviewers at MBB looked through your blog, all they saw was professionalism. Little did they know about this. They saw no links to sources, nothing stating that this is not your own words.

As long i'm not doing it to target specific Adsense keywords, it's OK.
I've always been trying to mention all my sources. If you think i'm doing plagiarism here, so be it.
As for the photographs, it's a bit difficult to mention ALL those sources - so i won't mention them.
Sorry for disappointing MBB reviewers - u can delete my review if you want. I don't care.

morinn wrote:
For one: Reports? as in news reports? b c pa sa em ki tone meter lor to blog? lol

For two: "news is meant to be shared!" excuse me for laughing! mai to seriously penser ki BBC so bne words pou reach pli bien to the mass kan to post li lor to blog? hihi!

For three: "If people could be sued for "news" plagiarism, then L'Express shoudn't copy those Reuters news & Le Matinal with those USA Today, India Times, blablabla..." Ah mai non, bne journal com lexpress, weekend, etc, zot bizin pay reuters ou bne lezot la, ou bien zot dza ena 1 contrat permission de sa bne international news agencies la. Wink ek remark bien ki zot mention zot source zot! Very Happy

LOL
For one: I meant reports like the IPCC's report on Global Warming, market share reports by financial companies, etc. Reports that are copy-righted & not meant to be shared.

For two: YES, I sincerely believed NEWS is meant to be shared - even if I know i'm reaching a single person(i.e me), then it's OK with me.

For three: Yeah, i know l'Express does have contacts with Reuters... but as for Matinal, i'm a bit doubtful.
Unfortunately they don't quote their sources each time - that's something i've seen very often.

carrotmadman6 wrote:


Ok, i forgot to put the source... I shouldn't make those mistakes anymore now - BigB is watching me (anyway, it was quite obvious that it was from BBC Sports - all my sports posts are from BBC Sports!) Thanks for the links - added them now!

Tne blier?? lol. To p plito rod racheter twa mo penser. Acoz kan to copier n zafer to pa blier mentione sorce la. To pa blier poster lor splog board, pa vrai??

carrotmadman6 wrote:
The real thing i want to point is this - is copying "news-related" stuff called PLAGIARISM!?!?!!?! What's the purpose of a news report if it can't be shared!?!?!
Btw, i did add my own very small bits, & i had to search all those photos (& it took quite a lot of time & breaking copyright infringements along, since i had no permission to reproduce those hard-to-find images!)
I personally think those BBC reports don't contain enough pictures... so that's why i post with loads of pictures to show the action & how it really happened. Thanks for comparing those two links - now u folks can see the difference between the picture-less version & the one with photos!!!!

Donc tone fer tousa pu ki n zour kiken point ki tne copier news et to cav discus lor sa. Brillant. Wi tne add to small bits, comme tne tire "In the race" dpi dan "In the race, things started to go wrong for Hamilton from the start."

carrotmadman6 wrote:
I think we have a great divergence over the definition of plagiarism - "Take the work or idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own." What i'm talking about is stuff like essays, poems, patents, reports, ideas, suggestions &... personal blog posts.

Mo pa ti p coz plagiarism mwa. Mne nek pense pu point sa out vu ki kan mne lire sa mne cner c n larticle ki pa twa kin ecrir. C ki amerdan c ki tne cachiete sa tousa tems la. To ti cav avouer ki to ti p copier sa ban article la o lieu de prendre la gloire. pfft.

carrotmadman6 wrote:
BUT NOT NEWS!!! News is meant to be shared! Otherwise we'll remain ignorant as cavemen...
If people could be sued for "news" plagiarism, then L'Express shoudn't copy those Reuters news & Le Matinal with those USA Today, India Times, blablabla...

Bon mo penser c imper pretencieu ki to dir ki to p share news. Mo pa cne buku dimun ki al lor to blog pu chek news. Ek si to pa poster something lor to blog nu pa pu vin cavemen.

Ban journal zot specifier zot sources.

carrotmadman6 wrote:
The "posted by carrotmadman6"... that's permanent. I can't do anything with that coz it's in the template. Did u take it literally?? hahaa!

Euuh to cav sanz "Posted by" la. Met li "Copied by". Better that way.

lol, wai li available sa! 1 lepok mo ti met "laid by morinn" mo croir.

bon b mo zis envi preciser ki personne pena narien conte carrotmadman ici, enfin du moin moi mo pena (a moin si li em rob ki ti shout lor mo shoutbox la! lol)

oh, and quoting the adsense TOS:

"Copyrighted Material
Website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content. Please see our DMCA policy for more information."

unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content

hmm, mone trouve logo (c) o bas sa page bbc.co.uk la.

sa v dir ena copyright ladans, mem si li zis news.

Jevin wrote:Tne blier?? lol. To p plito rod racheter twa mo penser. Acoz kan to copier n zafer to pa blier mentione source la. To pa blier poster lor splog board, pa vrai??

Kifer mo bizin "rachète" moi - ki sanlà ine vend moi?? Alors, d'après toi mo pas "human"(mo ene madman, non?)... pas gagne droit blié?
Btw none of my splogs are those "plagiarized" posts...

Jevin wrote:Donc tone fer tousa pu ki n zour kiken point ki tne copier news et to cav discus lor sa. Brillant. Wi tne add to small bits, comme tne tire "In the race" dpi dan "In the race, things started to go wrong for Hamilton from the start."

U have any probs?? Can't i edit the "original" posts??

Jevin wrote:Mo pa ti p coz plagiarism mwa. Mne nek pense pu point sa out vu ki kan mne lire sa mne cner c n larticle ki pa twa kin ecrir. C ki amerdan c ki tne cachiete sa tousa tems la. To ti cav avouer ki to ti p copier sa ban article la o lieu de prendre la gloire. pfft.

Prendre la gloire?? Péna pou prend gloire ici, just sharing the news... & si to ena kit probs.. pas vine lors mo blog... li simple!

Jevin wrote:Bon mo penser c imper pretencieu ki to dir ki to p share news. Mo pa cne buku dimun ki al lor to blog pu chek news. Ek si to pa poster something lor to blog nu pa pu vin cavemen.

Ban journal zot specifier zot sources.

Si to pas kone personne... sa pas veut dire personne pas alle check news lors mo blog. Mo fer seki mo envie lors mo blog... whether it is plagiarism, copyright infringement, hacking, cracking or whatever... & i know i have an audience(meme si c'est zis 1 seul personne)

Jevin wrote:Euuh to cav sanz "Posted by" la. Met li "Copied by". Better that way.

Unfortunately, nobody will dictate or control what i write on my blog... It's a free world. Go elsewhere if u've got probs.

Carrotmadman, all this was not aimed at you personally. And I would really appreciate it if you did not ask other members to go elsewhere if they have got "probs".

As you can see here, Jevin's points are quite valid and he stated this in your own good. Perhaps we could end this discussion here, unless anyone want to have their say about plagiarism.

This discussion would be here in case anyone want to clear their doubts regarding plagiarism and implications of this to Google Adsense.

Mo prob c ki to pan accepter ki to p copier ban larticle. Zot tou ine truver ki tne copier.

thembb wrote:And I would really appreciate it if you did not ask other members to go elsewhere if they have got "probs".

By elsewhere... i did not mean the forum, but my blog. (& didn't mean it figuratively)
& btw if u've got any "probs" with me... just tell me, i'll just go away.

Jevin wrote:Mo prob c ki to pan accepter ki to p copier ban larticle. Zot tou ine truver ki tne copier.

Do i have to state the obvious?? Of course, I've copied the article!?!? Ok, let's end it here.

morinn wrote:Quoting the adsense TOS:

"Copyrighted Material
Website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content. Please see our DMCA policy for more information."

unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content

hmm, mone trouve logo (c) o bas sa page bbc.co.uk la.
sa v dir ena copyright ladans, mem si li zis news.

Ok, then in addition to plagiarism, i've also done copyright infringement....

I don't think Adsense have any problems with posting plagiarized material, although it's explicitly stated in their TOS.(Blogger also i think) I've never seen anyone being banned from Adsense for anything apart from click-fraud.

As long as BBC.co.uk don't sue me, i'm ok with it. (probability < 0)

Moi zamais mone gagne tentation fer plagiarism

Simplement acoz mo content ecrire mo banne posts dan mo style (avek imP koz kk tou la dan )

Et aussi acoz li immoral mo prend ene article ene lot dimoune