Comments on: Should this bother me, or not?

By: JW

JW — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:41:07 +0000

Never been here till now.
Just had to say that i think it was a very stand up thing for Fabrizio to post. It shows good character.

By: Fabrizio Tinti

Fabrizio Tinti — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:49:35 +0000

Ok, I understand. Sorry again for the trouble and thank you for the advice. In the meantime, I have closed that account. – Regards, Fabrizio

By: walt

walt — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:05:55 +0000

Fabrizio: No real harm done–but in the future, you probably shouldn’t upload other people’s documents to Scribd, or any site that is so ad-heavy, without advance notice or without assuring that they use a CC BY, not a BY-NC license. You aren’t making money from my document; Scribd clearly is.

By: Fabrizio Tinti

Fabrizio Tinti — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:57:51 +0000

Dear Mr. Crawford,
I am sorry about that. I do not get any revenue of course. You are completely right, I should have mentionned the CC and let you know that I was linking to your document.
All my apologies.
Best Regards,
Fabrizio Tinti

By: walt

walt — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:59:47 +0000

[Both comments rescued from spam]

bh: It’s not thievery. The book has a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so the only issue is the ads at Scribd, and the person who did this does not get that revenue (I believe). Take away the ads, and there’s no issue other than (a) politeness–the idea that you might let someone know when you’re copying their book–and (b) the title provided for the page. Neither one is big enough to be anywhere near “thievery” level, and the uploaded book very clearly carries my name on the title page and in the identification.

Steven: I might do that. Thanks.

By: Steven Kaye

Steven Kaye — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:55:54 +0000

E-mail Tinti and say “What the hell?” (or find someone with better French than my remnants of high school lessons to do so) – he’s a librarian at the Université catholique de Louvain, the BSPOLink page has his work email. Weird thing is, he’s linked to Cites and Insights and to your Lulu page for The Liblog Landscape (http://pintiniblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/panorama-de-la-biblioblogosphere-anglo-saxonne/) in the past.

By: bh

bh — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:51:21 +0000

Walt, this sort of thievery is much more common than you might think. One of my google alerts (“osteosarcoma”) throws up many of the same articles time and time again, under different bylines. A lot of the sites which host these articles are obviously bogus spam sites, but it is very hard to tell with some. And sometimes some articles seem to have been put through some kind of parser to change the language. Some articles have obviously been put through a translator also.