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Re: Engadget Busted?

Aaron — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:51:13 -0000

Yeah it was the first time I had seen the comment, Martin. After seeing it here, I started seeing it everywhere else too.

Re: Engadget Busted?

Martin — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:32:00 -0000

Aaron,

You say "not throwing up PR bullshit" - the comment that Peter has placed here is pure PR - it's the exact same comment (word for word) at all the relevant blogs he's placed it on.

I don't really think the issue is about plagiarizing stories - it's more the fact that they cropped an image and removed a watermark. It's pretty clear cut.

I guess all blogs take images here and there but the issue here is that this particular image had a watermark and that watermark was a link. A simple email would have sorted it out as 99% of publishers who'd take that image that had such a watermark would naturally assume it belonged to whomever watermarked it.

I'm hoping it's more laziness on their part rather than anything underhand.

Re: Engadget Busted?

Jesse — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:47:56 -0000

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with friends like these...

Re: Engadget Busted?

Aaron — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:28:27 -0000

It gains notoriety to do so. It really doesn't make friends though and friends are critical in the world of blogs - moreso than notoriety.

Re: Engadget Busted?

Jesse — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:15:08 -0000

Blown way out of wack. There was an error, and it was fixed. Big deal. People seem to like going after the big boys

Re: Engadget Busted?

Aaron — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:59:08 -0000

That's respectable of you, Peter. I commend you for not ducking and throwing up PR bullshit. Engadget is resilient and I'm sure won't suffer longterm consequences.

Re: Engadget Busted?

Peter Rojas — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:54:59 -0000

Yeah, we made a mistake. It’s our policy to always credit and link back to our sources, and in this case we made in error in judgment combined with a misunderstanding about the source of the image (we mistakenly thought that DAPreview watermarked a photo that wasn’t theirs — clearly that was not the case).

Regardless, I take full responsibility for the mistake and that this will not happen again. We do a 1000 posts a month and occassionally we do screw up.

To be clear, we did NOT plagiarize, at worst we failed to properly credit and infringed on DAPreview's image copyright.