[stylist] A peculiar copyright infringement

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Wed Jan 19 16:44:26 UTC 2011 

Brad, You have the knack for this. Thanks for the laugh.
Donna

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On 1/18/2011 6:06 PM, Brad Dunse wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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