I give to you: The Luxury Travel Plagiarist
Jun 4, 2015, 8:26 pm
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This thread just reminded me of my own experience, and again sorry to go OT (something I tend to do with monotonous regularity)
Jun 5, 2015, 2:06 am
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Your site is different, because you are creating proprietary tools and content and you are not driven by the news cycle.
I have no grounds to complain (and I don't) when people re-use news stories I ferretted out, because I have almost certainly taken an idea from that same person in the past.
We all know the sites where there is zero original analysis and the author would struggle to book a flight on Expedia without help. I wasn't including those people in my comment.
I have no grounds to complain (and I don't) when people re-use news stories I ferretted out, because I have almost certainly taken an idea from that same person in the past.
We all know the sites where there is zero original analysis and the author would struggle to book a flight on Expedia without help. I wasn't including those people in my comment.
Jun 5, 2015, 5:39 am
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If you copy my content I will come after you, even if you link back to my site. There is fair use and there is copying and, while it may be a fine line, I am not at all OK with those who cross it.
Ideas are different than text. It matters.
Jun 5, 2015, 6:42 am
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Isn't Ric Loyalty Traveler, as opposed to John at Loyalty Lobby (who I recall did the posts on that plagiarism)?
(Both sites I check and commend, BTW.)
(Both sites I check and commend, BTW.)
The fact that two blogs have an acknowledgement is nice but there were 40+ that copied the text (I certainly never had the time to verify what percentage offered any credit, but take LL's post at face value implying such credit wasn't generally provided):
http://loyaltylobby.com/2014/11/01/b...ntbreaks-list/
The results are quite interesting to say the least. There were 40 Google hits outside of LoyaltyLobby that had this Lacrange spelling.
Referencing the list that I made and including a snippet would have been fine, but just copy/pasting it in its entirety certainly is not.
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Jun 5, 2015, 7:29 am
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Try copying something out of TPGs blog... what you get is this added automatically:
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Lufthansa flies direct to Munich from from Los Angeles, New York JKF and San Francisco, as well as major airports all over Europe including Rome, Prague and Milan; airberlin also has flights from Los Angeles and JFK, Delta flies from Atlanta, US Airways from Philadelphia and United from Chicago, Washington Dulles and Newark.
Read more: http://thepointsguy.com/2013/09/destination-of-the-week-munich/#ixzz3cC64AMQB
Jun 5, 2015, 7:43 am
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His content is mainly news, though. If you are the first to write about a public offer, you cannot seriously complain when other people write about that same offer if they learn about from your website. That is nonsense. There is a blog on BA which fills about half of its weekly content with news cribbed from me. It doesn't concern me.
That is totally, totally different to, say, me writing an article on the best ICs in Europe and then someone else running an identical article a week later!
I would also be interested to know how many of the sites which cut and pasted John's list kept his affiliate links in. It may well have been very lucrative for him.
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Jun 5, 2015, 7:46 am
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Jun 5, 2015, 8:37 am
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Jun 5, 2015, 8:40 am
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, but that seems to be the problem with the Luxury Travel Expert posts (on the blog and FT) - copying directly from ads and such pretty blatantly.
Jun 5, 2015, 8:57 am
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everyone complaining claims gary pretended that he did it himself >
if blogger gives link for attribution, it was not necessary for THAT blogger
only the bloggers who do NOT give link for attribution
only the bloggers who do NOT give link for attribution
Jun 5, 2015, 1:27 pm
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Though I don't mind the discussion on plagiarism. Hey, a good use for the Smack Talk forum!
Jun 6, 2015, 3:31 pm
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It didn't seem that the author of Loyalty Lobby was "ok with that" or felt he was part of a big happy copy-and-paste family.
Besides isn't it proper etiquette to acknowledge the source when, ahem, borrowing? Something which wasn't happening with the Loyalty Lobby copying incident.
Besides isn't it proper etiquette to acknowledge the source when, ahem, borrowing? Something which wasn't happening with the Loyalty Lobby copying incident.