Plagiarism of my reviews

OK, I'll do it. Perhaps the moderator has not read the e-mail I sent earlier to the Website's Admins.

Fitz, it seems that Brain Salad Surgery review is no longer there, so I presume the admins have deleted them?

I hope that is the case, as plagiarism is something I'd hate to happen to me.  Luckily I've only written three reviews here, so I believe nobody has plagiarised me.

My Astrid Proll review was used elsewhere (well, a shortened version), but that was by the bass player of the band and he referenced my name and PR anyhow, so I'm happy.

EDIT: it seems the the other reviews are still up though.  I hope this mess gets sorted out.


Edited by Geck0 - December 28 2006 at 14:00

andu wrote: Tony R wrote: I have registered and posted a complaint on the site. http://sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13903564&posted=1#post13903564      i think you should correct the email you provided - shouldn't the ending be @gmail.com instead of @googlemail.com?

No, the address is correct:

[email protected]


    

^Yes, Tony. See the seventh post on the first page in this thread for a copy of my e-mail to the Admins of that site. I've also sent the details to M@X and requested him to e-mail them too, but it's up to him whether he does or not.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the punk also ripped off a review by salmacis. I have not checked the rest of this ZoolanderHotept kid's reviews but notice that he has one or two by RUSH too, so perhaps he plagiarised them from Prog Archives too.

The punk even had the gall to pass himself off as me ("Fitzcarraldo aka Zoolanderhotept") on the other site. What a little twerp.

Tristan Mulders wrote: So what you're saying is that anyone can freely rip-off our well-written reviews and we cannot do a damn thing about it Iván?

1. The reviews are not copyrighted, even when this could be assumed.
2. Prog Archives can't sue anybody because the guidelines clearly state that the reviewer is owner of the review.
3. The legal costs in USA or Canada would be so high that hardly could be afforded.
4. If you win, the site will simply vanish and the guy will change user.
5. If you're not the RIAA it's very unlikely you will get a subpoena ordering the IUnternet provider to disclose the information about the user.
6. Even if you get it, he probably got that nick and web account in an Internet Cafe using a public server that requires no ID.

Simple as that.

Erik, Iván,

If the sites you quoted are crediting you and/or Prog Archives then I would not classify that as plagiarism, since they are acknowledging that they are not the originators of the reviews.

The reason I am so hopping mad about this ZoolanderHotept kid is that he has just copied my reviews and passed them off as his own. This is pure plagiarism, pure theft of somebody else's review. I just cannot understand how someone can be so shallow and childish as to do that. To actually claim on that site that he wrote them himself beggars belief. I notice that he even copied a spelling mistake I made and later corrected.

Funny, I just found this on the website of The Gift:

Edited by erik neuteboom - December 28 2006 at 11:35

he better not consider messing with one of beauties...

sorry to hear Fitz, take him down if that's his rotten habit.

erik neuteboom wrote: A few months ago I Googled my name and noticed the same activity as Fitzcarraldo discovered, at least 3 commercial sites (unknown to me) were using my Prog Archives reviews. If I have more time, I will check out this and mention these sites. In fact it's illegal use for commercial benefits  ..!

I am so cross with this thief ZoolanderHotept. Look at this exchange of messages on his review page for ELP Works Vol. II on that site:

AlienEater wrote: "how have managed to do so many good elp reviews so quickly?"

ZoolanderHotept wrote: "I didn't write these all this week. I wrote some of them afew weeks ago when my internet connection was down and started posting them as soon as it came back up. The others I had yet to post here but decided to do so when I saw there was only 1 ELP review."



The guy is a liar as well as a thief.

I have not received a reply from the sputnikmusic Web site's Admins to the e-mail I sent complaining, but it is the Festive Season. Perhaps they will reply in a few days.

In any case, I am so annoyed that I registered with the site and posted a comment on each of the 12 reviews of his that I found had ripped of my reviews. Here is what I wrote for ELP - Works Vol. II, for example:

This review was plagiarised from my November 2004 review of Works Vol. II on the Prog Archives Website. I am not ZoolanderHotept, despite him writing "Fitzcarraldo aka Zoolanderhotept" above. I did NOT give him permission to copy my review. And he even had the cheek to claim he wrote them "a few weeks ago when my internet connection was down". He is a fraud. I see he has also plagiarised 11 other reviews of mine.

Fitzcarraldo

Watch you reviews, guys! This thief will rip off your reviews too and claim that he wrote them.

I just hope that the sputnikmusic site does not have anymore thieves for reviewers.