BYLINES REMOVED, CONTENT REPRODUCED IN FULL WITHOUT PERMISSION OR ATTRIBUTION
by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 14, 2019) — While conducting research for an article on Wednesday, The Post & Email’s editor discovered her work, and that of her editorial contributors, reproduced in its entirety on a website titled, “HOTHEALTHBLOG” without attribution.
The url for the website is https://hothealthblog.com/.
We immediately recognized our original reports reproduced without our permission, a link back to each article at The Post & Email, and with our byline consistently removed.
The same treatment was applied to columns written by our editorial writers including Linda Goudsmit, Viv Forbes, OPOVV, Ron Ewart, Howard Hutchins, and Jeff Crouere, among others.
Hutchins’s latest column, published late on Wednesday evening, appears at the top of the blog’s list of postings, even after we sent a message through the website’s contact portal asking for attribution and backlinks to be added or all of our content removed.
The blog’s home page contains, in backward chronological, vertical order, all of our published articles, with no credit given to The Post & Email in violation of U.S. copyright law.
In the site’s “About Us” section, the owner states its “Vision” as “To be the Best Media platform with up-to-date and innovative news that create impact and is genuine at all times, backed by excellent service delivery, highly motivated human capital and latest technology.” As for its staff, it states:
Our relentless Team is made up of talented and visionary individuals with high integrity, with core values of promoting equity and fairness via excellence in media content delivery.
In our message to the website owner, we not only asked for attribution and a link to each article at The Post & Email, but we also stated that there are “legal ramifications” for his/her plagiarism of our copyrighted articles.
An article at The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about plagiarism published for the benefit of students states, “At UNC, plagiarism is defined as “deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “plagiarism” as (1) “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source” and (2) “to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.”
As of press time Wednesday night (11:16 p.m. EDT), we have received no response to our request from the blog owner. Should he/she fail to comply with our request, we plan to take appropriate legal action.
There should be many questions as to why they are completely copying P&E. For instance:
For what purpose?
What is their intent?
How will they use what they copied?
Who/what are they tracking?
Are they just trying to build an audience?
Does this mean that they are also getting access to P & E subscribers as well?
No. That information is at our newsletter distributor, MailChimp, and is not shared with third parties.
To get to their site, is not Google involved? Can a complaint to Google be made?
This doesn’t surprise me. The Chinese copy and replicate everything produced or written in America. Shameful
“”Our relentless Team is made up of talented and visionary individuals with high integrity, with core values of promoting equity and fairness via excellence in media content delivery…. And Theft “”
There are other means of reparation.
Without the hyperlinks.
Interesting.
I commented on this article on their site, that they are thieves and should be sued. Reading on their site made me as angry as if I read my poetry without my name.
They are trying to build a reputation on your back Sharon. I hope you sue them.
With their apparent Chinese ownership, that option might not exist, but I’m looking into it.
I just opened the link and found this very article on hot health blog. They have nerve.