I just stumbled on this post and asked the original poster (in the comments of his post), why he reposted other people's copyrighted work, without their permission, and for personal profit, and what value does plagiarism bring to Steemit.
He replied that as long as he linked to the original article, it's OK (although the article I linked to is not in his list).
So my question is this: Is it OK to (pretty much) copy paste content from other websites, post links to them, and claim its not plagiarism, while taking profit from other people's work?
Plagiarism is not allowed. You can copy and paste, but you must say where you got the material. You must add your own comments. There is a a robot called Cheetah who tries to catch people doing this. When people recognize you are doing this, they will not give you upvotes. Soon, you will start perishing. So you will demise yourself.
Thanks for pointing this out and informing people. A lot of people do not know, they are just trying to swim or sink. They are learning like everyone.
The best to you.
Hmmmmm.... ☆☆☆☆☆😎
i don't see a link crediting the author in his post. So, yeah, possibly plagiarism
There are three links, at the end of his text. I've posted a fourth link link, which I believe he copy / pasted from.
But the question is the following - if the idea behind Steemit is to create a website with unique content, what does copy / pasting bring to the platform (and the price of Steem)? It will be just another website with the same content, right?
Yet another issue is copyright - linking to content is OK, but reposting the content of the original author is not, as he will not get any revenue from it.
My questions would be:
plagiarize and/or violate copyright rules?
There is no central authority to whom anyone can insist that the associated content be taken down. I suppose that Steemit the company could certainly choose to mask/hide the display of such content in the Steemit UI, but I believe it will still be on the STEEM blockchain if someone wanted to use a blockchain explorer to go find it.
What happens when the original content owner that is the victim of such abuse is a really wealthy/powerful person that could otherwise bring a lawsuit in the case of a centralized social media platform like Facebook, do they have any recourse at all, or has it become a case of "sorry for your luck"?
As long as Steemit (the company) complies with copyright requests by taking down (hiding from viewers and search engines) illegally published content, things will continue as they are.
Which is a problem - first, because the idea behind Steemit is to concentrate unique content, thus increasing the price of Steem and second, because Steemit is trying to create censorship resistant media, only to censor its own users.
BTW, the price of Steem going up has nothing to do with the direction of the social media (i.e. going in the right direction). On the contrary, if it weren't for Bitcoin, Steem would be even lower in value.
Yeah, I think people misunderstand this.
Linking to the source of copyrighted material doesn't change that copyrights may apply.
There should probably be a central authority on issuing Internet certificates - if you don't have one, you can't buy a keyboard :)
There should probably be a central authority on issuing commonsense certificates.
Makes sense. Good call!
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Pretty sure this guy has been just ripping art from the internet all day and posting it without any links to the originals or who the artists are. He is slowly getting 50cents each post. He is posting a painting every 5 minutes. What do we do when this happens? https://steemit.com/@osmondaguda
The idea is that Steemit users should censor themselves. So the only option is to flag his posts and spread the word so others can decide wether he's ripping someone else's content or not.
tough call, right off the bat i wanna say the community does deserve recognition and compensation 100000000% for the hard work they have in the project. but tbh google, youtube, twitter, and facebook are the enemy. only uploading fresh new non copy-written content may be the downfall of this beautiful new tool we have been given. i really hope the content in question would be the final decision. if your ripping off a relevant youtuber daily i would Imagen you'd get flagged, 4 year old cat videos... go for it