23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
5:03 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Evan Koblentz wrote:
I *do* know a couple of people who speak Persian, so I'll ask them if
there's any reference to the page's provenance on the site. Chances are
there's a line somewhere saying "We emailed the author about it but it
bounced/he didn't reply/the email provider is long gone so presumably
it's okay", just as you do on a ton of English-language sites.
I do find myself wondering had been on http://israelipda.com with all
the supporting text in Hebrew, if there would have been such a screaming
about it ;-)
Gordon
This was an issue a couple of years ago. Now
it's back: the 10,000-word
article that I published on my personal web site in 2005 (and since took
down) is reprint IN FULL at
http://www.iranianpda.com/iPDADB/FAQs/PDAHistory/ThehistoryofPDAs.htm,
obviously without my permission. Whatever moron did this even
included my
disclaimer saying not to steal my work!!!
Looking at the source, it's an exact copy -- even the "return to
homepage" goes to your site, not theirs. I don't read Iranian, but that
doesn't seem like stealing/plagiarism (ie. trying to pass the content
off as their own), but rather mirroring the content. You also wrote on
the page "please don't reprint anything without crediting me" -- they
are indeed crediting you as your byline is intact. So is this stealing?