[stylist] A peculiar copyright infringement

Tue Jan 18 23:06:56 UTC 2011

Perhaps it was a translation project for a student which failed 
miserably :) or should I say...

Could-haps translation work unkind to your writing be

Brad

On 1/18/2011  03:33 PM Donna Hill said...
>Thanks, Anita, I'm thinking of putting up a query for an expert in 
>plagerism to comment. I just can't get over that they did this 
>rather than taking the article as it was for free. Go figure.
>Donna
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>On 1/18/2011 1:56 PM, Anita Adkins wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>It's a very interesting article. Someone did plagiarize your words 
>>from how it sounds, and I think your article about it is the right 
>>thing to do. Bad publicity for the place that published it and 
>>other legal procedures may also be in order. Excellent writing. Anita
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
>>To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:44 PM
>>Subject: [stylist] A peculiar copyright infringement
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>>>Hi Friends,
>>>The following is the most rudamentary draft of an article I'm 
>>>working on regarding something which just happened to me. I was 
>>>more interested in sharing the content with you than asking for 
>>>help on this, but any suggestions are always appreciated.
>>>Donna
>>>
>>>***
>>>
>>>A Most Peculiar Form of Plagerism
>>>
>>>
>>>When I was pursuing my songwriting career, I occasionally indulged 
>>>in the fantasy that someone would steal one of my songs. They 
>>>would become famous, and I would successfully sue them based on my 
>>>copyright. I would use my PR skills to get publicity for the trial 
>>>-- Famous musician rips off blind lady's song. I would ride to 
>>>stardom and my other songs would finally get their day.
>>>
>>>Now that my writing involves only words, however, copyright 
>>>infringement has taken on a different tone. It's happened, and 
>>>it's not what I thought it would be. I won't be sueing anybody or 
>>>riding to glory on the event. I'm not outraged or hurt -- well, 
>>>maybe disgusted a little. Mostly, I'm mystified.
>>>
>>>As a writer on blindness issues and an activist trying to spread 
>>>the word about the challenges facing blind Americans, I publish 
>>>articles on the Braille literacy crisis and related subjects to 
>>>online article directories like EzineArticles and American 
>>>Chronicle. I don't get paid a cent, but the sites don't demand 
>>>exclusivity, so I can publish the same article in multiple 
>>>locations. Furthermore, other sites can go to these "ezine 
>>>directories" for free web content and republish my articles to 
>>>their hearts' content.
>>>
>>>To see where my articles end up, I subscribe to Google Alerts for 
>>>"blind, blindness and Braille." On my 61^st birthday, I was 
>>>catching up on that week's Google Alerts, when I noticed a 
>>>familiar title. I went to the site. When I started reading the 
>>>article, I thought that I must have been mistaken; maybe it was 
>>>another article with the same title. Then, I began to realize that 
>>>the article was rather poorly written. In fact, I struggled to 
>>>understand it at all. It slowly dawned on me that it contained the 
>>>same information as mine. On closer examination, I realized that 
>>>someone had re written my article, published it and thankfully not 
>>>embarrassed either themselves or me by crediting it to anyone.
>>>
>>>The rewrite reminds me of what might happen if someone translated 
>>>my work from English to Chinese and back again with only the most 
>>>rudimentary knowledge of either language. I wrote to the site 
>>>requesting that the article be taken down and inviting them to use 
>>>the real one for free. No reply.
>>>
>>>Here is the first two paragraphs of my original article (August 6, 
>>>2010), followed by the "equivalent" of the butchered version.
>>>
>>> From American Chronicle:
>>>
>>>5 Shocks Braille Gave a Visually Impaired Audio Book Reader
>>>
>>>http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/174754
>>>
>>>Block quote
>>>
>>>At age three, before learning to read, I heard my parents talk 
>>>about the family who lived next to us in our cookie-cutter 
>>>suburban development in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. I thought 
>>>they were our "next store" neighbors. As I learned the alphabet 
>>>and meanings of words, I asked my mother what the neighbor's sold 
>>>at their store. I learned that I had, of course, misheard.
>>>
>>>That wasn't the last time my ears let me down in the spelling 
>>>department. Reading, however, is supposed to clue us in about 
>>>those words that aren't spelled the way our ears think they should be.
>>>
>>>Block quote end
>>>
>>> From Best Special Education
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>>>http://www.suite101.com/pages/article_list.cfm
>>>
>>>Block quote
>>>
>>>At grow older some, before finding out study, My spouse and i 
>>>heard this mothers and fathers discuss a family who resided close 
>>>to people inside our cookie-cutter suburban growth throughout 
>>>Pennsylvania's Lehigh Pit. I thought we were looking at each of 
>>>our "next store" friends and neighbors. When i figured out your 
>>>alphabet along with descriptions associated with phrases, Gurus 
>>>our mummy what are the neighbor's bought in its shop. I found that 
>>>I had put together, naturally, misheard.
>>>
>>>That weren't one more occasion the ears ok , i'll all the way down 
>>>inside the punctuational department. Examining, on the other hand, 
>>>should really hint you throughout about people words which are not 
>>>wrote how our own hearing believe they should be.
>>>
>>>Block quote end
>>>
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