racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Last February 3, I received an email from Sassy Lawyer, one of the more prominent Filipino bloggers ( www.houseonahill.net ) seeking support for “the fight against plagiarism on the net.” I apologize to Sassy Lawyer for this late posting. I’ve been quite busy with closing up work with the government, pending effectivity of my resignation (which is two weeks from now).

Message is quoted below. Since some of the links contained in the email are incomplete; please refer to these posts on Sassy Lawyer’s blog for text and screenshots:
http://journal.houseonahill.net/index.php/journal/entry/3781
http://journal.houseonahill.net/index.php/journal/entry/3790
http://journal.houseonahill.net/index.php/journal/entry/3797

I came across kuro.ph via Google. I was shocked to find that many of my blog entries had been plagiarized and posted there. The “bopis” recipe in http://www.kuro.ph/forums/showthrea…39&page=2&pp=15 was copied, word for word, from my food blog http://cooking.houseonahill.net/ind…d/recipe/bopis/ The Board Master who calls himself “Fireman” is a plagiarist. Princeedward is also a plagiarist. The pork satay and pinaupong manok recipes, including the photos, were also copied from http://cooking.houseonahill.net. I am demanding for the removal of Fireman and Princeedward from the Kuro.ph forums and all their postings deleted. I have posted the above in the kuro.ph forums. But it will help if I can have your support. Whatever form of support will be appreciated, whether blog entries or otherwise. If you know of any other blog entries that have been plagiarized, please post an entry about it in your blog or in PinoyBlog. Let us mobilize our community in the fight against plagiarism on the internet. Thank you.

I would like to express my full support to the proponents of this “fight” against online plagiarism. Most bloggers post information and share their knowledge online in the aim of being of help to the general (online) public. Actions such as those perpetrated by the concerned Kuro.ph forumers clearly violate intellectual property rights, and committing of these acts stifles creativity as well. After all, if you know that the information you share online might one day be used by others to their credit, then you’d have second thoughts about publishing, won’t you?

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