01-05-2007, 07:50 AM
capitalist_junkie Wrote:That's really frustrating. It never occurred to me that nothing would come of the discovery. Since my primary job is in academia, any plagiarism is delt with immediately and severely.
That´s what my partner was hoping for, some kind of justice, but it never happened. I had once someone quoting me in a book from an article I wrote, and I only found out through my editor! When she asked me if I had given my article to that writer, and I said I didn´t even know it, she was very mad, because by law, the magazine I wrote the article for, was the owner of it, and the author used it in her book, but never bothered to even check out with the magazine if she could use it. She didn´t quote the magazine, but at least she quoted me! Also, since the book was from Spain and the article from the USA, even though both were under the international agreements of copyrights, nothing came out of it.