Comments on: Times of India steals Creative Commons works

By: Times of india steals again | Stop Tolerating Online Plagiarism

Times of india steals again | Stop Tolerating Online Plagiarism — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:05:07 +0000

[...] of India, not only reused the work of professional photographer, Kalyan Varma, but also got let off very very very easily. In [...]

By: Nishant

Nishant — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:29:26 +0000

Media and the indian papers are not immune to corruption,fraud.Business is “chori”.The Times like most papers are owned by business families.The internet is full of information on swindling and cheating by online shopping sites,even indiatimes shopping affliated to the Times Group which publishes the TOI.

By: manjeet & yograj Jadeja

manjeet & yograj Jadeja — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:48:21 +0000

Hi!!
nice to know that they apologized but what about the compensation (whatever peanuts), it should be demanded from publishers who have repeated \lapses\.
its incidences like these that makes one think twice about the cc license.
is it worth the risk?
cant you post a link on Wikipedia to the licensed image that you decide to share on your website for free.

By: Anand

Anand — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:13:12 +0000

Hi Kalyan,
This is not the first time TOI is doing this, they have published articles from stolen pieces as well. But I agress with you if they can publish something on CC. Which will bring awareness to the genaral public. Great job!

Also, have you tried your hand on RTI regarding this. I am investigating to see more on that.
Regards,
Anand

By: Photoshopping news ? | Kalyan Varma Journal

Photoshopping news ? | Kalyan Varma Journal — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:04:52 +0000

[...] like Times of India is not only good at violating copyrights, its also good at photoshopping images to exaggerate the content. I am all for using photoshop to [...]

By: Ravi Maganti

Ravi Maganti — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:27:42 +0000

Kalyan,

I hope your actions serve as an eye opener for many who may not be aware of copyright protection. Let us also not forget about the intent of your photograph and also that of the article.

Ravi

By: Bhooshan

Bhooshan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:22:08 +0000

Deepa Mohan, Deepa, I am sad to see that you mention as if you can/will do nothing about it. Plagiarism is a very very serious ethical breach.It was an eye opener for me when I saw first hand how a famous best selling(check amazon for DSP) technical author- Rick Lyons – destroyed a fellow academic for plagiarism. It seemed a bit severe reaction at that time. I was even left wondering if he thinks a bit too much about his own self worth. May be there was an inflated ego at play and may be plagiarism is not taken that seriously in India and Asia in general. But in the end I understood that in western contexts its a breach of a very serious trust- like cheating in a marriage. The guy had sloppily lifted random diagrams and phrases from Rick’s book in an IEEE paper presentation and thought he can get away by mentioning Ricks book in “references”. Rick did not merely protest or raise an objection- Rick finished him off professionally just to send a strong message on how serious plagiarism is.

Hope you dont let it rest.

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:36:09 +0000

I just cancelled my subscription of ToI as plagiarism and copy right violations are not done .

By: Mridula

Mridula — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:51:07 +0000

I hate that word inadvertently.

By: Chirag

Chirag — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:39:32 +0000

This is not surprising at all ,a lot of indian publications think its okay to just steal off the internet , dont just settle for an apology , dont even settle for ‘payment’ , settle for damages.

Its not only that they think its okay to steal but its also disrespecting the profession that we are in.