Monday, March 05, 2007

Protest aganist plagiarisation of Yahoo! India

Few weeks back, Yahoo! India copied contents from few Malayalam blogs without permission from respective authors, and declared them as "copyrighted" by Yahoo!. This is a shameful act of plagiarism, that too by a giant corporation. Instead of apologizing and correcting the mistake, Yahoo! chose not to owe the responsibility . The contents have been removed from Yahoo! portal. But this not sufficient, we demand your apology.

Today, on March 5, hundreds of bloggers are marching against the giant corporation demanding apology from Yahoo!. sajithvk.blogspot.com joins the protest. Shame Shame Yahoo!!

A note on free content
Best contents made in the ever history of man kind, such as wikipedia, Indian epic poetries, are results of "collaborative writing". To make this possible, contents should be distributed under certain free (as in freedom) licenses such as GNU FDL or creative commons.
However, it is upto the author to decide license of the content. Hence, this in no way justifies current act of Yahoo!. Moreover, what Yahoo! did is simple theft, copying content from blogs without permission and claiming that its their property!.
Shame Shame Yahoo!

Know more about the issue
This issue has been discussed in detail in various blogs. Few of them are listed below.

1) And Yahoo counsels us to respect intellectual rights of others (ദേവനും തന്റെ രൂപം കാട്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. )
2) Bloggers protest on March 5th 2007 against Yahoo!
3) Content theft by Yahoo India
4) Content Theft by Yahoo! Shame Shame…
5) Global Voice - News
6) If it were… - സിബു
7) Indian bloggers Mad at Yahoo
8) Indian bloggers Mad at Yahoo
9) JUGALBANDI
10) Lawyers’ Opinion
11) Malayalam Bloggers Don’t Agree with Yahoo India
12) Mathrubhoomi (Malayalam News)
13) Tamil News
14) Wat Blog
15) Yahoo back upsetting people
16) Yahoo India accused of plagiarism by Malayalam blogger
17) Yahoo India Denies Stealing Recipes
18) Yahoo Plagiarism Protest Scheduled March 5th
19) याहू ने साहित्यिक चोरि की
20) കടന്നല്‍കൂട്ടത്തില്‍ കല്ലെറിയരുതേ...
21) കറിവേപ്പില - സൂര്യഗായത്രി
22) ബ്ലോഗ് കോപ്പിയടിവിരുദ്ധദിനം
23) മനോരമ ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍
24) മാതൃഭൂമി
25) യാഹൂവിന്റെ ബ്ലോഗ് മോഷണം (നന്ദിയുണ്ട്‌ ഹരി)
26) ലാബ്‌നോള്‍ - അമിത് അഗര്‍വാള്‍
27) ശേഷം ചിന്ത്യം- സന്തോഷ്
28) സങ്കുചിത മനസ്കന്‍