What plagiarism looks like?
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Link provided by Jolisa Gracewood in her blog post discussing her uncovering of Witi Ihimaera’s plagiarism.
Our lawyers prepared a similarly convincing graphic display for our High Court copyright infringement action, which may have helped the plagiarists in our case decide to settle the case last year.
Evidently, the examples we gave when we first communicated with the cowboys weren’t enough…
Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3
(Life is full of surprises.)
For the record, I do NOT equate Witi Ihimaera with the cynical lazy copyright infringement carried out by the IP thieves in our case.
I think the NZ Listener puts it really well on their cover this week:
Witi Ihimaera loved someone else’s words so much
he used them in his new novel.
Which is galling enough.
As I have said, he has my sympathy.
Really good article by Laura Miller at Salon.com re an evangelistic campaign to distribute a tweaked version of Darwin’s Origin of Species. The article (with links) points out additional material appears to have been um, well, er plagiarised.
Best line: “It’s hard to lend much credence to the scientific arguments of a guy who thinks chimpanzees are monkeys.”
I had already watched the video of Kirk Cameron referred to and had thought, There’s no need to tell lies. As Miller says: Cameron makes several false and misleading claims at the beginning of the video about how “our kids” aren’t allowed to “pray in public” or to “freely open a Bible in school.”
Yik splik. Their hearts are, undoubtedly, in the right place(?) (notwithstanding Miller’s comments about cherry-picking hostile comments to rouse the faithful to dig deeper for their donations) but jeez, telling lies to try defeat what you see as wrong is a cop out IMO.
Sleazy, boys, pretty sleazy. But playing to the fans — preaching to the converted — I guess. – P
See: http://aigbusted.blogspot.com/2009/11/ray-comfort-plagiarist.html