> I have received information from a few newspapers up here in Canada
> that some newspaper publishers and editors are downloading
> information from NativeNet groups and using it in their newspapers
> without the original author's consent or acknowledgement.
>
> As a Native teacher and a freelance writer I would feel violated if
> this happened to me. Can you imagine spending time on an article
> that you send to NativeNet so that your colleagues could read/
> critic and somewhere on NativeNet a publisher/editor(s) is
> downloading that article for his/her newspaper (hard copy/paper
> edition) and using a different author's name from the newspaper
> organization.
>
> How do the rest of you feel about this particular issue[?]
I would call it "plagiarism," and since we do have an archives for NativeNet
I think it would be fairly easy to prove it. I am under the impression that
in some states (I don't know about Canada) plagiarism is a misdemeanor
offense; I suspect that many newspapers would not want to risk being
publicly shown to be doing this, and that if we can make any offenders aware
that we know what's happening, they would stop it rather quickly. Or is
that too optimistic a view?
Jim Postema
postema@cobber.cord.edu
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