Twilight Fairy wrote to me about her picture being flicked by Times of India newspaper and the editor a Ms. Poonam Singh is now acting funny. And in her comment section you can find another user saying his/her picture was flicked by Economic Times. Shame on TOI.
Well, I clearly understand that it was not the editor herself stealing my image, but some downtrodden employee. But then undoubtedly, Ms. Poonam Singh, who represents the Times of India, is not performing her job of being an editor, if her employees are violating copyrights! Who is responsible for educating employees about copyright violation and the legal ramifications of it? How come the Indian publishing industry takes this so lightly, whereas the Indian IT industry (of which I am a part) takes IPR’s, patents and copyright violations so seriously that they throw out employees who download pirated mp3’s on their machines? I have undergone trainings on ethics a zillion times in my career. We have had several instances of audits, policies stuffed down our throats and what not. Why? Because the Indian IT industry takes this matter seriously. On the other hand, nauseatingly so, the Indian publishing industry takes this as its birthright!
I would recommend writing in to the ‘letters to the editor’ sections of rival newspapers like the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express at once, with full details.
Hi,I guess TOI regularly does this ! They stole a picture from a wonderful food blogger who has great pictures on her site.http://whatsforlunchhoney.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-letter-to-times-of-india.html
Sidhu but do you think thy will publish it? I thought birds of the same feather flock together.Vidya thanks for sharing the link and the comment.
TOI plagiarizes. Today’s journalists suck. My entire post on Baba Amte was copied verbatim by TOI Ahmedabad. There might be more, I don’t know.
What did you do Priyank? Could you get some compensation?
I see no offence untill they respect license.