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Originally Posted by tsk1979 Overdrive magazine have stolen my travelogue "The white travelogue" https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/trave...ml#post2266159 (The White Travelogue - Kalpa-Sangla-Narkanda) and published it in their April issue!
To add insult to injury, they have also called me a reader of overdrive magazine, which I certainly am not.
I guess they must be running out of content!
I have not been compensated in any way for my pictures, nor have they taken permission to publish my text and pictures!
I guess this is the state of their ethics! Now you know how much you can trust anything they do!
Another thing they had done is that they have modified my words from the travelogue to s ay that I use Goodyear tires. I do not use Goodyear tires. Infact, the safari has never worn Goodyear!
EDIT: I would also like to mention another fact here.
I occasionally get PMs on various forums from magazines etc., asking for high res images to publish article. Usually I send such PMs or mails to trash, I completely ignore them. This time also last month I got a PM on another forum from somebody claiming to be from OD. I sent the PM to trash. The guy still went ahead and copied the entire travelogue. |
Tanveer: Thats a serious issue. It needs to be condemned outright.
You appear to be using the email route initially. Sure if the things are settled amicably there's nothing like that.
I am sure you will if not satisfied with the response by email file a civil suit after giving notice to OD publishers.Please make the publisher, Editor and all the others down the heirarchy viz. Dy editor/s, Sub editors and also Goodyear (their top man in the marketing/advertisement department) as respondents.
Let all of them appear through their attorneys.I will in no way absolve Goodyear from the matter.Their advertising department is very much involved.
The civil case will go on for a few years at least.The body of the petition will list all the wrongs done by the publishers viz. OD and others (Goodyear). The annexures will comprise the OD article with its date of publication and printouts (colour will be better) of teambhp thread by you with all the pictures and dates to show that this precedes the date of publication of your article as alleged. If you have those pm's preserved in your trash bin these can be resurrected and printouts annexed to the civil suit.The OD publishers and M/s Goodyear have committed "breach of trust".
You can demand the following as
Prayer in the last section of your suit.
__________________________________________________ ___________
(1) Order OD magazine to pay a compensation of Rs ______lakhs to bear the cost of this civil suit and compensate for the mental torture, agony and lowered self esteem the petitioner underwent,after his article/thread was illegally plagiarized.On the other hand, the OD magazine and M/s Goodyear have gained public esteem of its readership, aided with commercial gains by M/s Goodyear.
(2) Order M/s Goodyear to pay a compensation of Rupees _________lakhs for wrongfully, illegally and without written or any other form of consent, using the petitioner as their brand ambassador for pure commercial gains.The petitioner has never used Goodyear tyres on his Tata Safari and has never endorsed their use by others by any medium.
(3) Restrain the OD publishers and M/s Goodyear by passing an injunction to prevent them from plagiarizing any such articles, write ups, travelogues from websites or from any other sources, as the publishers appear to be quite seasoned in doing such illegal acts of commission, going by their illegal deeds. These illegal acts of commission may similarly hurt, agonize and cause mental torture to other innocent authors.*
(4) By a court order, direct the publishers and Goodyear to publish a one page apology in their earliest, forthcoming issue, citing this civil suit and the hurt, agony and mental torture it has caused to the petitioner for no fault of his.
__________________________________________________ _
* If in future this act is done by either OD &/or Goodyear, a contempt of court suit can be filed by the respective party with your court order/judgment copy.The contempt petition filed by the new aggrieved party in a competent court will surely unnerve the wrong doers.
The civil suit can be filed anywhere in India preferring the place where you normally stay, as the cause of legal action arises anywhere in India due to the wide circulation the OD magazine has (this is in consonance with the Civil Procedure Code).
After filing the suit and when the court issues notice to the Respondents you can hold a press conference alleging the plagiarism with documents as press handouts.Adverse publicity will hit the nail on the two crooked heads viz. OD and Goodyear.
Buy more copies of the OD issue in reference, as you may need them as and when the civil suit proceeds.
Lastly, I would suggest the watermarking by our Teambhp on pictures should be at the center of each picture, in a larger font.The letters can be in a translucent white and a few other colours (multicoloured) to duck colour matching. This will alleviate most of the plagiarism issues of pictures from here.