Copy Vio
I was reading Ahmed Humeid’slast blog entry about text stealing. I started to write a comment on his blog, then when it got lengthy, I thought I will write it in my blog. To start with, I won’t blame that young man, as templates for such letters are all around the world, and templates for things like cover letters, routine papers and so is wildly used. As for that company :) I know at least other 2 or 3 similar cases, it is sad.
Another thing, I am involved in Arabic Wikipedia, which is about creating a “open content” encyclopedia. A very major concern for us there is copy right violation, we strike it hard, no toleration. Now many arabs come to Wikipedia wanting to help, and they start to copy and paste things. Although we have warnings about Copyright violation all over the place, it seems that people had developed the ability give it a blind eye. Google had been the best tool to catch up those copyright violations, as most people don’t even bother with even personalizing to the text, to hide things up :)
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