A good journalist respects others work

Nowadays, Internet is the easiest sources to find the information. But the issue is ‘Is internet the legal sources?’ Until now it still debated, between copyrighted and free content of Internet source. It seems like many people duplicate some paragraph, steal the ideas, and state that it is their work. When they think about those conditions, publishers are frustrated with the seeming inability to keep material under control. There is a copyright case that happened in 2011.  

A booming case recently is that reposting a whole article even without the owner's authority was fair use in the work. In this case, Righthaven, a company that is specializing in copyright ligation, sued Wayne Hoehn for posting an article and invite audiences to discuss. Righthaven quarreled that posting those discussion article reduced the reading number of the Review Journal site.

After this case in process, the judge stated that Righthaven loses this case; he explains that those discussion articles are not for commercial purposes. Furthermore, he explains that Righthaven did not have enough of a stake to bring the case to the court. It is a continuing fire that Righthaven has.

Most of people look never care with copyright rules, the most in their mind is some article is good and just copy or stole its idea without reference any copyright there. It triggers many authors report that their book or article has been stolen by irresponsible elements. Trying to work fast and make a good instant article have accused be the main reason for the plagiarist.

But the problem is they are not the real authors of those articles that they made. They don’t have the same efforts like what the author has. To be a good journalist, we must conscientious with material that we use, no one want a termination because of plagiarize material right?  - It will be okay if you read some article to expand the ideas from, but Please put the copyright details there -

The sentence to reflect is ‘Isn’t it rude if someone stole your whole homework without say THANKYOU to you?’  

References: 

        1. Allen, M 2011, Someone Stole My Article! What to do when it happen to you?, individual articles, Moira Allen, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://www.writing-world.com/rights/plagiarism.shtml>.

2.  Froemming, JG, Kayser, SM & Wilkes, MM 2011, Recent Copyright Case Developments—August 5, 2011, article, LexisNexis, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://www.martindale.com/intellectual-property-law/article_Jones-Day_1328520.htm>.

3.  Kravets, D 2011, Nevada Judge Threatens Sanctions for Copyright Troll, Wired.com, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/copyright-troll-sanctions/>.

4.   Kremer, J 2011, ‘The Amazon Kindle Swindle - Authors: People Are Stealing Your Work!’, blogspot, blog posting, 10 May, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://blog.bookmarket.com/2010/05/amazon-kindle-swindle-authors-people.html>.

5.   Maggie 2011, ‘RightHaven Loses Case Against Blogger Wayne Hoehn’, Word Press, blog posting, 21 June, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/06/righthaven-loses-case-against-blogger-wayne-hoehn/>.

6.    Templeton, B 2008, 10 Big Myths about copyright explained, Templetons.com, viewed 14 November 2011, < http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html>.

7.   Pichon, F 2011, Copyright material: fair and unfair use, World Edit, viewed 14 November 2011, <http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/06/copyrighted_material_fair_and_unfair_use.php>.