Please ban Contact Music articles - KEEP
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beatlesfanrandy:
anna_medlicka:
To a certain extend, that site is even worse in my opinion (I finally had the time to take a closer look) - they take full articles and simply put them on their site without saying where it is coming from! That's plagiarism! Contact Music at least states that the statements are taken from interviews ("he/she said in an interview with XY"); that they tend to take statements out of context is a different though - I admit - not a less terrible thing!
I have requested them to cite their sources, although that probably would require that they ask permission from those sources as well. It isn't necessarily deliberate plagiarism. They are failing to cite the author and source of their articles as good journalism would indicate, but not outright claiming them as their own. But I have not seen that website take a statement out of context and turn the truth of the matter, as I have seen contactmusic.com do.
The site Glass Onion is now spamming for is of bad quality. I will keep mine own mind for me. I will never put her site as a link on the website that I work for free for many years now.
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beatlesfanrandy:
anna_medlicka:
To a certain extend, that site is even worse in my opinion (I finally had the time to take a closer look) - they take full articles and simply put them on their site without saying where it is coming from! That's plagiarism! Contact Music at least states that the statements are taken from interviews ("he/she said in an interview with XY"); that they tend to take statements out of context is a different though - I admit - not a less terrible thing!
I have requested them to cite their sources, although that probably would require that they ask permission from those sources as well. It isn't necessarily deliberate plagiarism. They are failing to cite the author and source of their articles as good journalism would indicate, but not outright claiming them as their own. But I have not seen that website take a statement out of context and turn the truth of the matter, as I have seen contactmusic.com do.
No, when you cite where it is coming from, you don't have to ask for permission to use it! That's the point of quoting the source! But if you're not doing so, they find out and have a problem with it, you can get into serious problems even though people think "Ah, it's only a website"! Obviously they don't claim that the articles are their work but they also don't say that they aren't! People wrote these articles and they spent some time doing it and what this site is doing (believe it or not) is basically robbery! What I know is that whenever I write an essay and I use informations that I found on the internet or in a book or a newspaper I have to cite exactly where it is coming from, even websites, and if I'm not doing it, I could be banned from university! Many universities in the world use special computerprogrammes already to convict plagiarists! It's not a peccadillo! Anyway, Lauren just shot herself in the foot as she wants contact music to be banned but the last item from that paulmccartney.name site she posted in the broadcast section was indeed a contact music story!