payasam Posted March 12, 2015 Share #1 Posted March 12, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't know where else I might put this. Please compare LEICA Barnack Berek Blog: M2-250 - A LEICA FEW HAVE EVER SEEN Goldberg is perhaps best known as the creator of the Camcraft N-5 electric motor drive for the Leica M2 and MP. However, he has also several other inventions for Leicas and other cameras to his credit. For instance, the clip he designed to permit wearing an M Leica on the belt was widely used, and he also offered modifications of the Visoflex, utilizing either a prism or a pellicle mirror. He also designed and built a considerable amount of testing equipment to test cameras and lenses, including the equipment used at Popular Photography, and he held numerous patents. with Mukul Dube in Shutterbug, February 2011: Goldberg is perhaps best known, in the Leica world, as the creator of the Camcraft N-5 electric motor drive for the Leica M2 and MP. However, also to his credit were several other inventions for Leicas and other cameras. The clip he designed to permit wearing an M Leica on the belt was widely used; though his modification to the Visoflex reflex housing, involving either a prism or a pellicle mirror, was of interest only to a very few photographers. Besides these inventions, he designed and built a great deal of equipment for the testing of cameras and lenses. He held numerous patents. The plagiarist is named Heinz Richter. When he failed to bluff it out he offered to "Add a footnote stating that my article contains information obtained from an article written by you or rewrite the paragraph in question." He did not respond to a notice from my lawyer, who like me is in India; and I have no means of taking legal action in the USA. So a petty thief shall go unpunished. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 12, 2015 Posted March 12, 2015 Hi payasam, Take a look here Plagiarism. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted March 12, 2015 Share #2 Posted March 12, 2015 I am not a lawyer, but I think you would have a hard time to make this stick. Not only did he reformulate a bit, but if a source is credited, such a short piece might be argued to be "fair use". Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M9reno Posted March 12, 2015 Share #3 Posted March 12, 2015 In academic circles this would count as plagiarism. There is minimal reformulation, and the offer of footnoting is no improvement where text is copied verbatim and thus needs to go inside quotation marks. But in this case you can probably do no more than name and shame, unless you can prove real damage to yourself. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted March 12, 2015 Jaap, legal action is ruled out, so I shall not speculate on what a judge might decide. It is enough for me that no one who has read the material, including a couple of lawyers, has failed to call it plagiarism. Al, naming and shaming is what I am doing here. I may achieve nothing, of course: someone on Photo.Net said that this man is made of brass. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 12, 2015 Share #5 Posted March 12, 2015 Devil's advocate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanyasi Posted March 12, 2015 Share #6 Posted March 12, 2015 Plagiarism and copyright infringement are closely-related, but different concepts. Plagiarism is the use of material without proper attribution. Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of material under copyright. In the case of copyright infringement, your recourse is a lawsuit for infringement. Even if the use is attributed to the author, it would still be copyright infringement. A claim that a use is a fair one is not contingent on attribution. If it is fair use, attribution is not necessary from the standpoint of copyright. Plagiarism could give rise to serious legal repercussions and obvious reputational ones. For example, under contest rules it could result in ineligibility. It could also result in employment termination or expulsion from professional organizations. It could also result in an action for fraud if someone paid you money for the work. I am writing from a U.S. perspective. You are in India and are in contact with a lawyer, so I will leave specific legal advice to your lawyer. Having said that, based on the comparison of the two passages, I am sympathetic to your viewpoint, but I would be inclined to let the issue go once I had called it out. This falls in the category of life is too short. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted March 12, 2015 Share #7 Posted March 12, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) There is a difference between jurisdictions as well. In the USA there is fair use, which is not a legal concept in many European countries. Over here we have a citation right, which is different in that it is limited to the parameters set in the law, leaving little room for interpretation in court. Obviously I have no idea what the law in India is. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted March 12, 2015 True that life is too short. Besides, it will be altogether too difficult to take legal action. I shall make do with giving what publicity I can to the matter: name and shame. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZDavid Posted March 14, 2015 Share #9 Posted March 14, 2015 Definitely it's plagiarism. A shame the author could not have contacted you first, it shows poor judgment. Ironic that his own site has a copyright warning. Thank you for pointing it out but there appear to be very few rules on the internet and even fewer ways of enforcing them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 14, 2015 Share #10 Posted March 14, 2015 Definitely it's plagiarism. A shame the author could not have contacted you first, it shows poor judgment In academe we find that most undergraduates do not understand what plagiarism is. They live in a 'mash-up' world. To insert balance, some credible authors/academics/just-plain-smart people object to overly strident copyright actions when they apply to multi-authority works. I'm stuck in the indecisive mode inflicted by lawyers. To the OP - the infraction under consideration has not enough consequence to justify action, but it certainly did get exposure here, and if enough are concerned enough to write to him, perhaps he will cite in his next article. All is good. . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share #11 Posted March 15, 2015 It is a fact that theft is rampant on the Internet: More Thefts of Photos and Text - Mainstream Weekly Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orient XI Posted June 17, 2015 Share #12 Posted June 17, 2015 In academe we find that most undergraduates do not understand what plagiarism is. They live in a 'mash-up' world. To insert balance, some credible authors/academics/just-plain-smart people object to overly strident copyright actions when they apply to multi-authority works. I'm stuck in the indecisive mode inflicted by lawyers. To the OP - the infraction under consideration has not enough consequence to justify action, but it certainly did get exposure here, and if enough are concerned enough to write to him, perhaps he will cite in his next article. All is good. . Copying from one person in an exam is cheating otherwise it is plagiarism, copying from 10 people is research, and copying from 100 people is scholarship. No wonder our undergraduates are confused! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted June 17, 2015 Share #13 Posted June 17, 2015 ... copying from 10 people is research ... it's research if you credit your sources. Otherwise, it's just theft. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted June 17, 2015 Share #14 Posted June 17, 2015 One of the pleasures of mathematics is the necessity of using others' work upon which to build. Show your work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted June 17, 2015 Share #15 Posted June 17, 2015 Sir Isaac Newton famously paraphrased Bernard of Chartres, when he commented in a letter to Robert Hooke "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." It sounds noble, coming from a President of the Royal Society, however Newton hated Hooke, and Hooke was short! I sympathise with you, however it could be said to be flattering that you were copied. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan.y Posted June 22, 2015 Share #16 Posted June 22, 2015 Did you communicate with him before threatening legal action? Turning that passage into a proper quotation would be so simple, and the decent thing to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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