Comments on: “It’s all Greek to me, literally…”

By: john paul sarabia

john paul sarabia — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:31:21 +0000

last weekend we went to Cebu–my family- and we ate at your restaurant-we like in particular lechon dinuguan and squid stuff with bangus sisig-last night while talking about the trip my brother in lawcongressman trenas mentioned zubudagt – which gave me a smile coz if they only know that I know a liitle bit of history about this famous zubuchon – I was even among the taste testers of the lechon before it opened.

By: Anna Banana

Anna Banana — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 12:26:32 +0000

Wow! Congratulations MM!

By: Corrine

Corrine — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 14:27:16 +0000

Hi MM. I have a copy of the.magazine when it came out. I hope you were cites for the photo.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 01:42:38 +0000

Connie, hmm, maybe a mini-fishpan brewing. But original attribution was there and they did advice me of the article (albeit after the fact). So I am not sweating it for now. :)

By: Connie C

Connie C — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:51:13 +0000

MM: In your Mac, there is a window up top that asks you if you want to translate just above the main frame. I was able to browse thru the magazine and understood what it said tho with a not so perfect translation, even saw pictures of the new power/glamour couple George Clooney and Amal Alamoudin.

Re attribution, magazines often would claim all rights to your pictures or article giving them free license to use it as deemed. I don’t know if there is a clause or agreement like that , but still, any self respecting magazine with integrity as Elle Greece? owes you credit for publishing your recipes as much as they credited the photographer and sylist for the article.

A big fishpan award for Elle Greece’s negligence?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:26:20 +0000

Editor is trying to get me a copy of the article next week… then we will see it in its entirety. :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:22:58 +0000

Connie et al, I haven’t seen the print version, so I don’t know what attribution was given. The photographer and stylists were right, the ones who did the Manila shoot. I don’t have a translation of the recipes, don’t know for sure if they haven’t been altered from the original. Not sure what rules apply after original article which gave proper attribution is taken up by an affiliate magazine… at any rate, we know whose fishpan it is. Footloose, I have to just smile when you make comments like that, I feel like I have to go look up notes from university or high school classes covering the classics…

By: Footloose

Footloose — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:17:57 +0000

I was obliquely suggesting to MM that with or without attribution, consider the appropriation of his article and pics a present to the financially beleaguered Greeks. The allusion, you are right on, is to the gift horse for the Trojans, by way of Virgil, “I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts.” I remember the hokey pastiche of a movie Helen of Troy where they appropriated without attribution Christopher Marlowe’s “the face that launched a thousand ships and burn the topless towers of Ilium.”

By: Connie C

Connie C — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:28:17 +0000

MM: Something’s terribly wrong. No proper attribution?

My MacBook translates from Greek. Photos and styling were credited to: Photographer :David Hanson, styling: Paulynn Chang Afable, Sharlene Tan but nothing said about you?

Footloose: “it’s gifts coming from their direction we have to be wary of.”. A Trojan ( horse?) Di ko ma-gets ( in common Filipino parlance)

By: La Emperor

La Emperor — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:51:29 +0000

Cool indeed. Global fame you deserve. :)