Interested in joining a protest against Yahoo! India plagiarizing contents from bloggers?
Why this is dear to me? Just because we write and take pictures due to our passion for food and writing and give the content for free for others to cook and create, that doesn’t mean someone can take us for a ride and copy our content, especially a giant corporation like Yahoo!
Yahoo! has to apologize to the bloggers and not shamelessly remove the content from their servers.
This plagiarizing and violation of our (bloggers) rights has been going on forever. Not anymore! We need to be heard!
Visit this link if you are not aware yet of what happened.
As dear Revathi and Shaheen suggested, I am going to fix this protest event on March 5th 2007.
What you can do,
1. First spread the word about this protest to other bloggers. It need not be food blogs only. It doesn’t matter in what language you blog, just create the post in English in your blog.
2. Create a post on March 5th 2007 about Yahoo! plagiarizing from bloggers. A short note and link to this post. Come up with catchy slogans as your post titles :-)
3. If you do not want to write-up something, you are free to copy the text from my previous posts.
Hope we will gather enough support and make this event a major success.
So spread the word my dear friends and let us all do a silent protest on March 5th 2007.
70 comments:
Inji, Thanks for dropping by my place and letting me know.
One doubt. Are u asking us to make the post on Mar 5th or any day before that ?Pls clarify.
Shn
march 5 it will be, then.
Excellent. I suggest this be a warning to everyone trying to copy. big and small
Please make a post on March 5th MishMash. We will all post it together on March 5th. Thats the idea, a mass protest on that day.
great. march 5th it is.. should the post be the same in everyone's blog?
No, I dont think so Shaheen, But a link to this post is needed and also mentioning of what happened and why we are protesting.
Thank you revathi and bee.
dear inji,
for your reading pleasure:
http://jugalbandi.info/2007/02/dear-yahoo/
Inji great idea absolutely, mass protest it will be.
Hi Inji,I will put it in my sidebar since I post only once a week now.Hope that's okay.
Excellent idea inji,we are all with u..see you on march 5th..
Thanks for understanding Inji:))
I have already posted about this protest in my sidebar under "What's Plagerism?", with a link to you,so ppl can come here to read more about your post.Glad to help!
This has been going on for so long. You are right, Inji Pennu. I will definitely participate in the protest and post on March 5th.
I am with you on this!
Check my post. let me know if you don't agree
Hey Injimanga, my post is ready and just a click away :)See u on mar 5th :)Hope none steals that from my computer before that ;))
Shn
Thank You Inji for informing this thing..I will do that on March 5th..Its really a great idea !
Here is a statement that we got from Yahoo! India.
The Malayalam story was provided to us by Webdunia.com (the content provider) on the express representation that they are duly authorized by the author of the story to publish it. In the circumstances therefore, we do not admit of any copyright violation, as alleged by you.
Although there is no copyright violation and without prejudice to our rights, the said story has been removed from our web site, to avoid any further controversy.
Should you have any further concerns on copyright violations, please write in to copyright@webdunia.com and it will be addressed by the webdunia team.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the communication. Do you work for the media? I am afraid I dont know you?
I know, we too got the same answer. But why should we care about Webdunia? The content appeared on Yahoos's domain and Yahoo's portal. So we don't have any rights to ask WebDunia.com. Thats Yahoo's job! Don't you think so?
We want an apology from Yahoo! India portal about this mistake.
Inji.. WE have something called bloggers United in Malaysia.. with our own logo and chrater.. read this link
http://sloone.wordpress.com/
I would love to have a logo... that I can place in my blog.. as a sign of solidarity.. against yahoo
Inji done
count me in too:)
I know only Yahoo can pay you big moolah! not Webdunia !
That's when you are worried about Yahoo than a content lift done.
Nice show
Dear "whats"
You must be from "webdunia" or a relative, right? You can play all the games you want! I dont care. Sorry to say Sir, but any other comments like thse will be deleted in future.
Inji
I will upload the image in "PhotoBucket" and give you the link. Don't give the blogger link.
Shall do by today evening and also maybe provide a smaller icon
thanks
sandeepa
Hi,
Thank you very much for your valuable support.
I am happy to see so many bloggers are joining and supporting the cause.
Let us make this a grand protest.
Yahoo! at least needs to apologize for their mistake.
This is what I personally believe. Big corporations like Google and Yahoo get content from various sources. Some content is received from portals like webdunia.com.
It would have been mistake on part of Yahoo if they did not remove the content after you have complained. But the fact is that they did, and that shows Yahoo respects your opinion. They also pointed you to the right source of problem. Isnt it? So do you still think Yahoo is wrong? why?
Dear Balu,
What is not fair is we bloggers asking WebDunia since the content was not on Webdunia's. That’s not fair. How can we even ask Web Dunia? They could easily say
1) It is not on our portal
2) Show us the evidence on our portal
What would we say then? We cannot even accuse them of anything. Thats not fair to me.
Yahoo! took down the contents which clearly show their guilt. They should also say a Sorry, that’s all we are asking.
Corporations create all these laws to protect themselves whereas individuals like us do not have that luxury. So when corporations themselves commit grave mistakes like these, they ought to at least provide an apology to the bloggers.
Even if you accidentally stomp on a person's feet, you would say Sorry - wouldn’t you?
Do you think writing to an online newspaper site like rediff.com, would help spread the protest? Just a thought.
Why does your Post Date show Feb 28th. Are you on a Time Machine ?
hehehe no sandeepa, I just posted it as Feb 28th so it will stay on top while I could post the food posts below that :)
Hi,Please count my name too.
Fight against injustice ang copy right violation.
Inchi, please draft a representation to Minsiter For Communication and Information , Central Government and obtain the signature of all bloggers.Then we will send to this to medias and Minister.
Yahoo!stop violation.
Yahoo!stop content theft.
Hi,Please count my name too.
Fight against injustice ang copy right violation.
Inchi, please draft a representation to Minsiter For Communication and Information , Central Government and obtain the signature of all bloggers.Then we will send to this to medias and Minister.
Yahoo!stop violation.
യാഹൂ നിന്നെ കണ്ടോളാം ഞങ്ങളൊന്നെന്നറിഞ്ഞോളൂ.
injechi,count my name too..
i've added this link in my blog.
Thanks INJI for this endeavour.
Join with all support against the theaft of YAHOO!.
Thank you Chandretta for your reminder.
Excellent. I presume, this should be a warnign to any one who copy another person idea or concept, let it be a small fish or big one like Yahoo... i pledge my whole herted support here.
inji, i can see that yahoo and/or webdunia have unleashed a posse of flying monkeys at those who question their actions. one has been visting my site as well, demanding proof that they have committed plagiarism. - bee
May be I am the extream victim of the Strong support for the Issue. I am loosing my close friends and base root supporters. Even though I can't go back from my Principles.
"The Last and Frist right on Blog is to the Blogger" unless and untill google give a time to withdraw his/her creation out of it.
Yahoo definitely has to apologize... Silently removing the contents is not enough.
ഈ വികാരങ്ങള് മാനിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടവയാണ്.
പക്ഷെ ഒരു സംശയം. എണ്ണമില്ലാത്ത ബ്ലോഗു പോസ്റ്റ് ഗൂഗിളിനല്ലേ ദോഷം ചെയ്യൂ. (കരീം മാഷു നേരത്തേ പറഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ട് വെറുതെ ചപ്ലിയടിച്ച് ഇതിന്റെ ആണിക്കല്ലിളക്കരുതെന്ന്.) ജോര്ജു ബുഷിന്റെ പ്രവര്ത്തിയില് പ്രതിക്ഷേധിച്ച് കേരളത്തിലെ പട്ടിണിക്കാരന് പണിമുടക്കുകയും ബസു കത്തിക്കുകയുംചെയ്യുന്നതു പോലെയാവുമൊ ഇത്?
നമ്മള് കുരച്ചാല് യാഹൂ തുറക്കില്ല. യാഹുിന്റെ പരാതിപ്പെട്ടിയിലേക്ക് (തലപ്പത്തിരിക്കുന്നവരുടേയോ പബ്ലിസിറ്റി ഡിപ്പാര്ട്ടുമെന്റിന്റേയോ ഇ-മെയില് അറിയുമെങ്കില് ഏറ്റവും നല്ലത്) എണ്ണമറ്റ പരാതികള് ഒരേ ദിവസം അയക്കുക. അല്ലെങ്കില് അയച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുക. അവര്ക്കു തലവേദന കൊടുക്കുന്നതല്ലേ നല്ലത്?
യാഹുവില് തിരഞ്ഞിട്ട് ഇതൊക്കെയേ കിട്ടിയുള്ളു.
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/abuse/cgi_abuse
someone is pretending to be me!
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110236.html
മെച്ചമായ നിര്ദ്ദേശങ്ങളുമായി മുന്നോട്ടു വരിക.
ഇഞ്ചിക്കുട്ടീ, ബ്ലില്യന്..ബ്ലില്യന് പിന്നലെ!
(നീണ്ടു പോയെങ്കില് ക.മ. ക്ഷമിക്കുക /\)
നിര്മ്മലേടത്തിയേ,
നമ്മള് കുരച്ചാല് യാഹൂ തുറക്കുമോ എന്നുള്ളതല്ലല്ലോ പ്രശ്നം. അതൊരു പ്രശ്നമേയല്ല. ശബ്ദമുണ്ടാക്കുന്നതാണ് അവശ്യം. ശബ്ദമുണ്ടാക്കുന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചൊരിക്കല് ഞാന് നാലുകെട്ടില് (ലേഖനം ലേബലില്) ഒരു പോസ്റ്റ് വെച്ചിരിന്നു (അല്ല അല്ല പോസ്റ്റ് വായിക്കനുള്ള മാര്കെറ്റിങ്ങ് അല്ല) :-)
ജോര്ജ്ജ് ബുഷ് ഇന്ത്യക്കെതിരെ എന്തെങ്കിലും പ്രവര്ത്തിച്ചാല് തീര്ച്ചയായും നമ്മള് പ്രതികരിക്കണം. അത് അമേരിക്ക വരെ എത്തിയാലും ശരി ഇല്ലെങ്കിലും ശരി. ഒരു അണുമ്പോമ്പ് കൊണ്ട് ഇന്ത്യയെ കത്തി ചാമ്പലാക്കിയാലും ശരി. മിണ്ടാതെ ഇരുന്ന് മരിക്കുന്നതിനേക്കാളും നല്ലതല്ലേ അത്? അഭിമാനം എന്നൊന്നില്ല്ലെ? അതില് നിന്ന് വരുന്ന ഒന്നല്ലേ നമ്മുടെ പ്രതികരണശേഷി? അത് അടിയറവെച്ചിട്ട് ജീവിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നതെന്തിന്?
ഞങ്ങള് യാഹൂവിന്റെ ഓഫീസുമായി നേരിട്ട് ബന്ധപ്പെടുകയും ഒക്കെ ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ട്. കാര്യങ്ങള് മുന്പോട്ട് പോകണമെങ്കില് ഇങ്ങിനെ ഒരു സമരപന്തല് കൂടിയേ തീരൂ എന്ന അവസ്ഥയില് മാത്രമാണ് ഇതിവിടെ തുറന്നത്.
ഗൂഗിളിന് ‘ദോഷം’ ചെയ്യുന്നത് ഇതല്ല, മറിച്ച് എന്റെ നാലു കെട്ടും തോണിയും പോലുള്ള വേസ്റ്റ് ബ്ലോഗുകള് ആയിരിക്കും. അത് വേണമെങ്കില് അടക്കാം :) പക്ഷെ ഈ പന്തല് പൊളിച്ചു മാറ്റില്ല :)
ഇതില് ജയിക്കുമോ എന്നൊന്നും അറിയില്ല. ഇതു വരെ തോറ്റിട്ടേയുള്ളൂ, പക്ഷെ അതുകൊണ്ടൊന്നും ഞങ്ങളുടെ വായ് മൂടിക്കെട്ടാന് ആരേയും അനുവദിക്കില്ല, തൊണ്ട പൊട്ടുന്ന വരെയെങ്കിലും!
(ഓവറായൊ? ഹിഹിഹി..) :)
Hi,Please count my name too.
Fight against injustice ang copy right violation.
Hi Injee, Please count me too.
Inji is this protest against yahoo only or does it include all those other blogs who simply lift content?
ഇതെന്താ ഇഞ്ച്യുണ്ണ്യേ, മാങ്ങയെത്രാന്നു ചോദിക്കുമ്പോ ഇഞ്ചി അഞ്ഞാഴീന്നു പറേണെ?
:)
കണ്ഠം കീറികരയാന് ഇന്നലെ മുതല് ഞാനിവിടെ വായും പൊളിച്ചു നില്ക്കല്ലേ! അതു നമ്മുടെ ബ്ലോഗു വീട്ടിലുവേണോ അതോ യാഹൂന്റെ കുടുമ്മത്തിചെന്ന് അവന്റെ ചെവിട്ടിലൂതണോന്നു പറഞ്ഞാമതി.
(what i meant was, if every blogger send complaints to yahoo on march 5th (repeatedly if necessary) it will slow down their servers and might force them to respond. i already sent one to yohoos 'abuse report' with bee's link in 'feed back' window )
This is outrageous! Yahoo do need to apologise. Inji, I'll be there. No matter how busy I am, I will post it on March 5th. I'm glad I saw this post today, rather than on March 6th.
And those of you who say that we should take it up with webdunia, either you don't get it or you just dont care.
Every company has a legal binding with their partners, about ownership of content or product. Yahoo is the owner of the plagiarised content. They should have apologised. What if yahoo posted some 'lifted content' from a bigshot newspaper, word by word, without giving any credit. Would the newspaper company keep quiet?Wouldn't Yahoo apologise? Wouldn't they pay bigbucks in settlement? Or would they just say - 'Oh, you know, one of our freelancers did it, you can sue him'!
Shame on yahoo!
Count me in, Inji! Yahoo should be ashamed of itself!
Its a very good cause inji,glad that we are all voicing it together as bloggers!
Am here with you ppl... yahoooo, we are against you..!
Inji,
I've been a silent spectator thus far and have been thinking about ways to be proactive about this kind of plagiarism. Perhaps and event where we all 'cite' the blogs that we got our idea from? The goal is to encourage people to visit other blogs while giving credit where credit is due... what say? Perhaps I've been working on my research paper too long!!
Smita
good developments....
...a warm salute to ഇഞ്ചിപ്പെണ്ണ് for strongly advocating for a genuine case..
..hats off and all supports..
count me too..
All the best. Count me also.
InjiPennu,
I have posted about the protest on my blog, and have mailed to ibnlive and ndtv. Let's stand by her!
:)))
Smiling cos Iam receiving good answers for the question I posted on Yahoo-India-Answers, service. Follow this link to see what I have asked?
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhnKCWsPBz8xUI0kgMPfndhJSBV.?qid=20070301114247AA6YRoQ
Inji,
Count me too!
I am with all of you....totally against intellectual theft.....
need to protest....
count me too
I pledge support to my fellow bloggers to fight copyright violation and plagerism.
It is de-meaning, disrespectful damages the credibility of legitimate artists and writers.
Yahoo should formally appologise for the content theft.
As Hopper says in "Bugs Life"
"are you in charge? Then its all your fault"
Yahoo, you are in charge. If things mess up, Its all your fault. Now APPOLOGISE and let it all just go away.
dear inji
I have posted my protest on my blog.
MKERALAM
inji
ithumathiyO?
It will appear in the site at 1325 hrs on 5-3-07.
i published my protest.
Hi!
Great idea. I have also posted a banner link to your protest. Good luck!
Kanchana
posted!
count me too
याहू इन्डिया की चोरी के खिलाफ़ यह यह पोस्ट है
mine
വൈകിയെങ്കിലും ഞാനും പ്രതിഷേധത്തില് പങ്കുചേരുന്നു.
വൈകിയെങ്കിലും ഞാനും പ്രതിഷേധത്തില് പങ്കുചേരുന്നു.
Congratulations for the leadership and support to Su.
http://chandrasekharannair.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/yahoo_apologizes/
Hi,
I am not sure what is the status now on this. However, I saw a post stating response from Yahoo. It says that, yahoo responded saying that the content was provided by webduniya.com. How does it matter to anyone from whom does yahoo get the contents for their web pages? It is like saying that - in a hotel if the biryani is bad then please go and ask the farmer who produced the rice. I dont see a connection at all.
regards,
Jagmohan
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