This Really Fries My Potatoes.
I don't normally post directly about book drama, but my friend sent me this blog article yesterday, and it made me sick.
Like, seriously? Plagiarism?
Just a few thoughts:
1. Copypasting someone's REVIEW is plagiarism. Why? Because it's their intellectual property; it's the same reason that copying someone else's essay is plagiarism. The ideas are NOT YOURS.
2. Stealing/distributing an independent author's work is PLAGIARISM and ILLEGAL. They hold the intellectual copyright. You do not. And yes, even if they are not "legitly published" guess what? They can still sue you. And they will probably win.
3. Raising awareness about this fact does not make someone butthurt. It is cracking down on a problematic issue that ruins the free exchange of ideas for all the genuine, honest folk out there.
4. Changing a few words here and there does not fool anyone. There are powerful search engines that are trained to look for that. It only makes you look even more guilty by default.
5. If you're going to suffer through all those consequences...why not just write your own work? Why risk being branded a dishonest and cowardly cheat for the rest of your life?
Just some thoughts.
What do you guys think?
Like, seriously? Plagiarism?
Just a few thoughts:
1. Copypasting someone's REVIEW is plagiarism. Why? Because it's their intellectual property; it's the same reason that copying someone else's essay is plagiarism. The ideas are NOT YOURS.
2. Stealing/distributing an independent author's work is PLAGIARISM and ILLEGAL. They hold the intellectual copyright. You do not. And yes, even if they are not "legitly published" guess what? They can still sue you. And they will probably win.
3. Raising awareness about this fact does not make someone butthurt. It is cracking down on a problematic issue that ruins the free exchange of ideas for all the genuine, honest folk out there.
4. Changing a few words here and there does not fool anyone. There are powerful search engines that are trained to look for that. It only makes you look even more guilty by default.
5. If you're going to suffer through all those consequences...why not just write your own work? Why risk being branded a dishonest and cowardly cheat for the rest of your life?
Just some thoughts.
What do you guys think?
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Jun 15, 2013 09:38PM
incomprehensibly stupid, is what it is
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joolz wrote: "incomprehensibly stupid, is what it is"Agree x 100.
Disgusting, is what it is. And, as Julio said, incomprehensibly stupid. And...why even open yourself up to that kind of accusation? Because you WILL get caught. And then you'll spend the rest of your career trying to get people to forget that you did it.
Lisa wrote: "Disgusting, is what it is. And, as Julio said, incomprehensibly stupid. And...why even open yourself up to that kind of accusation? Because you WILL get caught. And then you'll spend the rest of ..."
And people will campaign hard to make sure nobody ever does.
God, the articles I saw popping up left and right when City of Bones became a movie...crazy.
maybe it's like one of those powerful impulses that people get.as with eating your hair, or sticking a beer bottle up your ass.
you know it's a bad idea, but you still end up in the ER with a matted ball of protein in your belly and a greasy obstruction in your chute.
...or so i've been told. by the internet.
I once met an ER nurse who had a hysterical (depending on your perspective) story involving a vacuum cleaner attachment. But I digress.IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, but PLAGERISM is thievery, pure and simple. Whoever is busted out doing it should be punished immediately, severely, and shunned from the writerly community for life.
Absolutely agree with you Nenia.This puzzles me as well..
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
Why on earth would someone feel the need to plagiarize GR reviews? What's the point? It probably fits into the same category as collecting thousands of "friends" on this site, while only having 10 books.
What an interesting topic thread. Thank you for sharing that.I've only seen plagiarism on this site once; I flagged it immediately. The GR community seems like a pretty decent one. I've been in several communities, and none of them were as warm and close as this.
I don't get the friends thing, either. I wouldn't say book-spamming and group-spamming is as bad as plagiarizing, but both of those things definitely spoil the close-knit nature of GR.
I had that happen to me (someone plagiarizing my GR review). She copied the last paragraph of one of my reviews and tweaked it a bit but most of it was word for word. There were only a few reviews on that book so it stood out (to me at least) like a sore thumb. I asked about it in the Feedback group and contacted GR about it. They agreed that the member "heavily borrowed" from my review. They removed her review and sent her a warning. Concerning the plagiarism referenced in Nenia's blog... what I can't wrap my had around is how someone can pretend like they didn't do anything and actually be so indignant about it when the proof is right there in black and white! That's just all kinds of stoopid.
Michelle wrote: "I had that happen to me (someone plagiarizing my GR review). She copied the last paragraph of one of my reviews and tweaked it a bit but most of it was word for word. There were only a few reviews..."Back when I posted on Fictionpress, I had several of my short stories plagiarized and turned into One Direction fanfic. It pissed me off; especially when they gave other people "permission" to reblog their stories. It's like, NO BITCH. THAT'S MY SHIT.
A lot of my friends left Fictionpress because of plagiarism, so this is a sore point with me. I have zero sympathy for plagiarism; it is one of my few hot buttons in terms of the literary profession. (Another is bullying readers, and Smug Author Complex.)
