Here’s a clear case of content-napping from MarketManila.com, and Inq7.net is apparently involved in the fiasco.
In the Philippine Daily Inquirer yesterday (page C4) and on their on-line website (both with a readership numbering in the millions on a local and global scale, compared with my modest base of 2-3,000 wonderful and loyal readers) an article by James Anthony R. Ceniza on Yema Balls features a stunning photograph of a yema sitting on an unwrapped pink cellophane wrapper.
Long story short, some James Anthony R. Ceniza took the “yema” recipe and picture from MarketManila.com, submitted it to Inquirer’s Family Recipe Contest without credit or notice to the author. James won the Php2,000 SM gift cheque prize but was in for a big surprise when several bloggers noticed that cunning similarities in the picture with that of MarketManila. James here must have searched for “yema” on Google Images and copied the very first one he saw.
Inq7.net removed the “picture of the yema” from the site but how about the printed ones?
Ok, bring in the yemas!
The gall of this guy. Did he think no one was going to notice? I hope they made him give back the prize money.
I wonder if Inq makes submitters sign a document assuring ownership of the materials.
[...] The story unfolding: analysis by stepping on poop, and Sassy Lawyer and http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=398 who have covered similar issues in the past. [...]
[...] It’s the bloggers that expose cases of plagiarism in the newspapers as exemplified in the latest Yema fiasco of Inq7.net. Now bloggers are the ones explaining to Inq7.net what’s the real story of that Google bombing for “pekeng pangulo”. [...]
Although I think it’s more like the contributor’s fault than the Inquirer’s, I think the people at the Philippine Journalism Review must know about this.