26May/105
Plagiarism shock!
Eagle-eyed reader Chris spotted this quote in a Mail story about computers in schools:
Fancy that! Widespread plagiarism. Outrageous. Which of course is entirely unadjacent to the practice of a certain media group, who when confronted by Just Do It about lifting Twitpics, snappily retorted:
Elliott Wagland, Pictures Editor for the Mail wrote back: "Unfortunately we cannot pay the amount you have requested, these images were taken from TwitPic and therefore placed in the public domain, also after consultation with Twitter they have always asked us to byline images by the username of the account holder.
Is it computers in schools that have led to 'widespread plagiarism'? Or are these kids just copying the Mail?
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May 26th, 2010 - 15:47
They aren’t above copy-pasting entire Wikipedia articles into their own articles either. See the Amityville House article for that one.
May 26th, 2010 - 15:57
Ho-ho! Just fancy that!
Why is journalism so piss-poor these days? Not many Pilgers or Iain Bells around.
May 27th, 2010 - 10:09
The Mail and plagiarism?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/super-cali-fragilistic-ex_b_440054.html
Surely not?
May 27th, 2010 - 17:52
and the Twitpic = “public domain” thing is a total lie anyway.
(As was highlighted the other week, when there was a claim from AP that they could use a picture because the pro-photographer had ‘distributed’ it via Twitter – something you can’t actually do – and the reality was that it was shared via Twitpic which doesn’t make or require any such release on uploaded content.)
Maybe EPUK will give the issue some needed publicity.
May 27th, 2010 - 19:45
Here’s some more free pictures for the Mail to use – I found them on the interwebz, so they must be totally in the public domain, because, like, no own owns the interwebz, except, like, the Big Companies and stuff!
Clearly an isolated incident, though – it’s not like DMG&T papers have a long and inglorious habit of stealing the work of others and passing it off as their own, is it?