Plagiarism at Metro
Biscuit Vio (link is gone) got the ball rolling while others like Pierre-Leon and Philippe are making sure that this story gets ample coverage.
A classic case of blogger plagiarism by a big company. Assuming you can read French, check out this recipe (sorry, link gone) from Mitaine ecarlate. Now saunter over to an identical recipe (third link gone) from the Metro web page.
Professsion: Epicier Copieur
[update] I have just been informed that the offending page has been taken down. Unfortunately for them, I had also saved it as a PDF file.
[update 2] It appears that the situation has been somehow resolved which includes removing all traces that it ever existed.
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Very sad. Not even a hat tip or credit. Cheap bastards
either the link changed or they took it down…(metro)
Bonjour Andre,
Hey, would you mind if I use your pdf file in the article I published this morning on my website about the ‘Mitaine’s case’? (Of course, with a reference to your blog ;)
Meh, that’s the thing with Internet publishing: big companies think they can steal others’ texts and get away with it. I have a friend whose online descriptions of certain classic videogames were plagiarized by a large retrogaming company. He went to court and won. Worst thing is that he would have been more than happy to provide said texts for relatively little had they bothered to ask him.
Thank you. The situation is now finished and in the past.
She has a CC logo on her page. EVERYONE from big media to individual web publishers need to know what that means and how to handle the situation properly. A hat tip or credit post-fact would not have been acceptable restitution in this case…her license clearly states that no commercial re-use is acceptable. RTFL.