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Bursts of plagiarism in India

May 31, 2007 · Posted in India blogs, Misc 

A couple of days back, Dr. Arunachalam Kumar, a Sulekha blogger, reported on how his blog posts were being plagiarized word-to-word on IBibo blogs. A few weeks back, there was a similar incident where a movie review was plagiarized in a newspaper (I cant recall which paper it was..If anyone can recall this, please let me know).
Now, just a few days later, a reporter for Mid-Day Bangalore, Sunanya Suresh, seems to have lifted WATBlog’s post about Chintee.com (the news about Reliance’s Chintee.com was originally broken here on startupdunia) word-to-word and without any proper attribution.

Yes, as a blogger, I often link to stories and articles in newspapers and other magazines. But with the necessary attribution.

Not providing the due credit is like claiming the work to be your own - which is ethically, morally and legally (blog posts are copyright of the respective bloggers).


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8 Responses to “Bursts of plagiarism in India”

  1. Rajiv Dingra on May 31st, 2007 4:29 pm

    thanks for your support! Its really appreciated! :)

  2. Raman Singh on May 31st, 2007 9:38 pm

    My 2 cents:
    It would be incorrect to say call these “bursts”. Plagiarism has always been there in India and in every media — film scripts, scenes, music, advertising, academia etc. This is a function of demand being greater than supply! Demand for content being fuelled by the growth of newer platforms (most of them being business driven) — but the supply-side being constrained by the availability of good/original/worthwhile content creators.

    While I do not condone plagiarism, I am also a little amused by the reactions of the offended — whose response seems to suggest that they just discovered something that was unknown to the world up till today! Folks, you only woke up today :)

  3. Ekalavya on May 31st, 2007 10:26 pm

    The newspaper thing was by Mumbai Mirror, who copied an article from Passion for Cinema..

    http://www.watblog.com/?content=detail&id=703

  4. Infomadness on June 1st, 2007 1:54 pm

    Well everybody is getting information from somewhere. What is different is the way you present it with your own point of view. I think the Chintee.com news became such a big issue.

    I agree that Startup Dunia wrote about chintee.com initially. What I wrote on my website was something to the next level which Pranav didn’t know that time.

    But I agree with WATBlog as Mid-day literally copied the same exact thing without giving the attribution link or even name of the blog.

  5. Himanshu J Sheth on June 3rd, 2007 4:05 am

    Copying content was fine but not giving any credit to WATBlog was a bad part from their side.But this is not the first time that Mid-Day has done this,they take lot of photos and articles from Bangalore Metro Blog as well.This is really sick :(

    -Himanshu

  6. Raman Singh on June 3rd, 2007 12:28 pm

    I was going through some old archives at DesiPundit and came across this link — http://jupiterjuice.blogspot.com/2006/05/leave-me-alone.html — Sulekha itself has been indulging in ‘interesting’ practices in the past to get users. One also remembers how one of their product managers was spamming every moderately popular Indian blog asking them to switch platforms!

  7. pranav on June 4th, 2007 12:59 pm

    Thanks Eklavya for that bit..for some reason, I couldnt recall that it was passionforcinema..

    @Raman
    I agree. Plagiarism isnt new..However, it just seems to have become way too rampant these days. Internet has enabled easy access to great content on just any topic one can imagine. And with that, some folks are taking the easy route to content generation (and indirectly revenue generation) rather than making some effort of their own. And since they lack the correct morals / ethics, we need to at least get them to realize that they’ve erred.

  8. Jayeeta on October 11th, 2007 3:59 am

    I am a student of Mass Communication and Journalism, and doing an assingment on Media Ethics and Plagiarism. I am quite surprised to come across so many incidents of plagirism. If you people want to find out more on this topic you can refer to http://www.thehoot.org,www.nytimes.com.