Where to report qt blog plagiarism?

vicent

Hi,

recently I was looking for some info about QHeaderView and found "this blog page":http://cprogramingbyvinodannu.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/qheaderview-logicalindex-vs-visualindex.html. It contains some useful information and I asked a couple of questions. Yesterday I found "this qt blog page":http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/05/16/qt-commercial-support-weekly-20-visualizing-the-logical-2 . The contents of both pages are 99% the same but:

the qt blog page was posted before
the author of the qt blog page is not mentioned in the other blog page

so it seems to me a case of blog plagiarism. Unfortunately I'm not pretty sure about how/where to report it. Neither I know the policy of the Qt team about plagiarism. So I don't know what to do. Should I report it? If so, how can I do it?

Thanks for your help.

sierdzio

Contact the original author (Andy Shaw) and Digia.

leon.anavi

The two articles are very very similar and it is a shame that there is no external link to original article by Andy Shaw :(

Btw this case is nice opportunity to highlight Qt Developer Network Wiki because everybody can update the articles and the history can be easily retrieved :)

vicent

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1357811744"]Contact the original author (Andy Shaw) and Digia.[/quote]

Thanks for your reply. Those have been the first things I've tried. Unfortunately I can't find an appropriate link in the Digia website to report this problem. I expected to use the "Contact Us":http://info.qt.digia.com/contact-qt/ link but it seems to be completely focused on potential customers. And the author's email doesn't appear in the aforementioned qt blog page. I suppose I can leave a comment in that page reporting the plagiarism, it is just that I thought there was a formal procedure for dealing with this kind of issues.

sierdzio

Apparently there is none. You can try contacting "Gurudutt":http://qt-project.org/member/4, he is the admin for Qt Project page, so he might have a better idea where to go with this.

gurudutt

Hi

Thank you for raising this issue , I have already informed right person to take action, I will update you guys soon here.

katt1078

Hi - Thanks for the heads up. We are flattered that our developer posts are being used externally. However, our policy is that while we love that people replicate our content, we would like for our hard-working Qt engineers to get the credit. We will contact the blog site and ask for accreditation to Andy Shaw, Head of Support at Digia, Qt. We will also post a short guideline on how to reuse our blog posts:

You are free to copy and republish a blog post or parts of a blog post, BUT the author must be accredited somewhere in the new content AND a link to the original blog post must be included.

Thanks again for the help!

sierdzio

Sounds like a good candidate for "Creative Commons":http://creativecommons.org/choose/. Qt Project wiki already uses CC.

vicent

[quote author="Katherine " date="1357898663"]Hi - Thanks for the heads up. We are flattered that our developer posts are being used externally. However, our policy is that while we love that people replicate our content, we would like for our hard-working Qt engineers to get the credit. We will contact the blog site and ask for accreditation to Andy Shaw, Head of Support at Digia, Qt...[/quote]

Hi,

there is at least one more plagiarized Qt blog page in the same website, see:

JKSH

The blog seems to have been taken down

vicent

Yes, the blog is not available now. Good news I believe. I suspect there was a large amount of plagiarized content there.

texrat

It's very unfortunate that some "writers" lack the ethics to at least credit the source...

Plagiarism-checker.me

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