Monday, October 22, 2007

Stop Plagiarism

I received a sms from my cousin this morning, asking me if it's ok for her to put my poem in her blog. I am absolutely fine with that if my permission has been sought and the source cited. I have been feeling quite disturbed over the past few weeks to learn from a few friends that they have seen my poems (or poems quite similar to mine) published in other blogs. It's not that I think my poems are very good or that I am not keen to share. I really wonder how could anyone in this world use my poems, simply change some words and pass them off as theirs.. this is plagiarism ok!! It's like someone has stolen something personal from me and I sincerely hope that these people could show me some respect in this area. Sigh... I guess there's nothing much that I can do about it right?.. =(

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