Comments on: Blogger Sues Major Philippine Daily for Copyright Infringement!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:59:10 +0000

chocolatesky, YES, it is still plagiarism. If you are going to bother to re-write 50% of an article, why not write one from scratch instead.

By: chocolatesky

chocolatesky — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:33:29 +0000

i have a question. there are a lot of job nowadays on the net that offer rewriting of articles. If you rewrite 50% of the article and they publish it is this still plagiarism??

By: cumin

cumin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:42 +0000

Shameless. Media is fast losing its credibility. Good luck, Anton. I hope you get what’s due you.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:27:37 +0000

Jun, I would definitely talk to the restaurant and ask them to at least put a source or credit the photographer.

By: Jun

Jun — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:01:19 +0000

I find it unacceptable for professional journalists to be plagiarizing and taking photos off blogs and websites. I had a shot of “pinangat” at a restaurant at Camalig, Albay and found out last week that a hotel here in Legaspi printed it half a page in their menu. I was quite shocked that I didn’t do anything about it .. yet. Maybe I’ll talk to them before I leave the country.

By: Chu

Chu — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:58:09 +0000

Sweet… I should just start selling photos to the stock agencies. Thanks, Anton!
Actually, if MB is citing “fair use”, all it had to do was reprint the photo with credits or issue an erratum. Wonder why they didn’t do that.
Anyway, good luck to you.

By: Joy R. Butler

Joy R. Butler — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:43:47 +0000

I also applaud the efforts of artists to enforce and protect their copyrights. Unfortunately, Itâ€™s often an uphill battle because the cost of pursuing a lawsuit may be more than the damages that can be recovered from the infringer.

You can take some inspiration from the stock photographer, Chris Gregerson, who represented himself in a copyright infringement lawsuit and won a $20,000 judgment. I discuss his case on the GuideThroughtheLegalJungleBlog.com

https://www.guidethroughthelegaljungleblog.com/2008/05/artist-litigate.html

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:50:33 +0000

corrine, the watermarks can be erased quite easily. there is a copyright notice in the about section and at the bottom of every page. but ultimately, one who “steals” a photo must be aware that what they are doing is plain and simply, wrong… I just hope people become more cognizant overall about intellectual property… the same argument can be said of a student who quotes a paragraph or uses a photo from a book or website that doesn’t attribute to source… it is intellectually dishonest… one would think this is an educational problem, but for a newspaper to do it? Unconscionable, I think.

By: corrine

corrine — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:32:55 +0000

Suggestion…will it help if in the future you put the words for example…”copyright 2008 marketmanila.com” on all your photos whether posted in the net or not? I see some bloggers put these words on their photos. But maybe these can be erased or cropped? Oh, well…

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:56:15 +0000

Good luck with your fight, Anton! I don’t agree that this was a case of imitation. It was plainly stealing – nothing that I would find flattering.