On 13 September 2012 14:33, J. Colaco < jc> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > COMMENT: > > Some possibilities: > > 1: Selma submitted that pic with or without giving due credit. (ONLY In the > latter case, would it be considered plagiarism), > > 2: Heraldo "tiefed" the pic or it did not. > > In any event, I am not sure that Selma can justifiably be slammed until all > the facts of the "case" are ascertained. Then again, she may have erred. Do > we not err (sometimes, at least). > > If she did err, I am sure (I hope) she will record her error, and that ALL > of us will avoid plagiarising. > > Then again, editors of newspapers do some interesting things. Ask JoeGoaUK > (whose pics get "lifted" ever so often or Mr. Mckenzie of the Sun who just > apologized (for not doing due diligence) decades after the fact. > > jc > COMMENT: If the picture was lifted by anyone then that is wrong - Pictures/photos are big business, just recently 'Getty Images' was sold for USD3.3 billion. Their library of pictures are for sale not given f.o.c. http://www.redherring.com/finance/transitioning-to-the-digital-world-getty-images-sold-for-3-3-b/ Seems to me that in Goa these things are of little consequence. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
