Jul 19 2008
Let’s talk about plagiarism
What plagiarism is:
Plagiarism is fraud. It is taking the work of another and claiming it as your own.
When it comes to plagiarism ignorance is not bliss, nor is it an excuse.
Where to find information about plagiarism:
http://www.famousplagiarists.com/index.html
http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/index.php
I bring up the subject of plagiarism because I have seen evidence of it in the form of copy and paste on Helium.com. Although I’ve reported it, I have yet to see anything done about it. The person admits to finding recipes online and after checking it with a plagiarism site it scores as 100% plagiarized. I find it not only unscrupulous but also sad that Helium does not take pride in itself to take care of this immediately.
Recipes written by sites such as foodtv.com are there for your free use. You can print out the recipes and put them into recipe files. You can even share them with your friends to try. Cook up a storm with them.
What you can not do is sell them. You can not put them on a paying site to be used to earn money, even if that money is only pennies. Wrong is wrong no matter how you look at it.
On to other things. For anyone who does not read my other blogs I’d like to put up a few links of my own writing. Some good, some bad and some ugly ones. Let me know what you think and if you would like you links listed leave them in a comment.
http://www.helium.com/users/edit_show/424078
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The famous plagiarists website is amazing Roxan. I knew a few but, for example, I did not know about Johnny Cash and I’ve been a fan for many a long year.