Violation of copyright/Plagiarism by Koha Vendor
Dear All, I am maintaining my blog/website at http://mishravk.com/ for free flow of knowledge and sharing of information which i have without any restriction and charge. Today i came across a commercial service provider of Koha at http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq who copied my original tutorial on " Data Conversion (Book and Journals) from Libsys to Excel/Marc <http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and-journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/>" from http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and- journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/ . In the current instance they have copied the content and screen shots and converted into PDF with watermarking, most surprising is they have not yet mentioned the original source. Therefore all library fraternity is requested to check whether the service provider is selling there own product/brain or its others which is already available free of cost some where and provided by voluntary basis by library professionals itself. Please note : I did not allow anyone to use my website materials available at http://mishravk.com/ for any kind of commercial benefits directly/indirectly without my prior permission and attributions. Location of content link : http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq Location of copied PDF : https://web.archive.org/web/*/ http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq/export-data-from-libsys-bbb With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi*
Hi Vinod This is very bad behaviour, they should definitely not have done that. One suggestion I have for you, is you license your content. I would suggest CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Creative commons Attribution, Share Alike license version 4.0) While this will not stop the bad behaviour of people like below, it will allow others to know they can use your content provided they follow your license. As it stands, it is just copyright, which means no one can legally use it in anyway. Once again, this is very bad behaviour and I would encourage them to remove the content immediately. Chris On 09/02/17 06:12, vinod mishra wrote:
Dear All,
I am maintaining my blog/website at http://mishravk.com/ for free flow of knowledge and sharing of information which i have without any restriction and charge. Today i came across a commercial service provider of Koha at http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq who copied my original tutorial on " Data Conversion (Book and Journals) from Libsys to Excel/Marc <http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and-journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/>" from http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and- journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/ . In the current instance they have copied the content and screen shots and converted into PDF with watermarking, most surprising is they have not yet mentioned the original source.
Therefore all library fraternity is requested to check whether the service provider is selling there own product/brain or its others which is already available free of cost some where and provided by voluntary basis by library professionals itself.
Please note : I did not allow anyone to use my website materials available at http://mishravk.com/ for any kind of commercial benefits directly/indirectly without my prior permission and attributions.
Location of content link : http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq Location of copied PDF : https://web.archive.org/web/*/ http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq/export-data-from-libsys-bbb
With Regards,
Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/
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Vinod, in addition to Chris' suggestion, if you have claimed copyright over material on your website then you could send them a Take Down notice. If they don't take it down, you could approach their ISP. I hope you can resolve it amicably with them. Bob On 09/02/17 06:16, Chris Cormack wrote:
Hi Vinod
This is very bad behaviour, they should definitely not have done that.
One suggestion I have for you, is you license your content. I would suggest CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Creative commons Attribution, Share Alike license version 4.0)
While this will not stop the bad behaviour of people like below, it will allow others to know they can use your content provided they follow your license. As it stands, it is just copyright, which means no one can legally use it in anyway.
Once again, this is very bad behaviour and I would encourage them to remove the content immediately.
Chris
On 09/02/17 06:12, vinod mishra wrote:
Dear All,
I am maintaining my blog/website at http://mishravk.com/ for free flow of knowledge and sharing of information which i have without any restriction and charge. Today i came across a commercial service provider of Koha at http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq who copied my original tutorial on " Data Conversion (Book and Journals) from Libsys to Excel/Marc <http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and-journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/>" from http://mishravk.com/2014/11/data-conversion-book-and- journals-from-libsys-to-excelmarc/ . In the current instance they have copied the content and screen shots and converted into PDF with watermarking, most surprising is they have not yet mentioned the original source.
Therefore all library fraternity is requested to check whether the service provider is selling there own product/brain or its others which is already available free of cost some where and provided by voluntary basis by library professionals itself.
Please note : I did not allow anyone to use my website materials available at http://mishravk.com/ for any kind of commercial benefits directly/indirectly without my prior permission and attributions.
Location of content link : http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq Location of copied PDF : https://web.archive.org/web/*/ http://bestbookbuddies.com/faq/export-data-from-libsys-bbb
With Regards,
Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/
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