ChinaExpat.com, Don't Steal our Dalian Content
By Rick on Tue, 2008-09-30 22:13
***Cross-posted on PandaPassport.com
First it was Xianzai.com who was stealing our Dalian content and reprinting it verbatim on their website.
Now it's ChinaExpat.com. I was a little disappointed to see that, especially since I had written a pretty hefty Dalian piece for them a while back. Maybe they figured that if I did one piece pro-bono, that I wouldn't mind if they lifted all the stuff I'd written about Dalian? I don't know... They do link to DalianDalian.com on one of their pages, but I really don't think that's gonna cut it on their listings pages. Especially considering that when users search for a Dalian bar or restaurant on Google, ChinaExpat will be right up there in the rankings thanks to the content they lifted (word-for-word) from us.
UPDATE: This is especially mind-boggling considering that ChinaExpat has their content stolen a while back, and made quite a bit over noise over it. I suspect this is a case of the site owners not knowing what hired writers are doing... But Jesus, c'mon people.
Anyway ChinaExpat, you can use my stuff. Just be clear to attribute where it came from.
Also you've stole some of DalianXpat's content too, so be sure to get in contact with them too.
Some examples:
Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/dalian-bavarian-beer-house
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/dalian-bavarian-beer-house.htm
Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant.htm
Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/chu-shin-ya
Stolen Content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/chu-shin-ya.htm
About Rick
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Canadian living in Dalian for 4+ years. Also can be found over at CNet Asia and 1Rick.com.
Rather Hypocritical
Given ChinaExpat kicked up a storm having their content stolen by the Confuscius Institute. In that article discussing the content theft they stated:
"It is the last six words that are particularly sad since there is a wide perception in the world that China cares little about intellectual property rights (IPR). At a time when the country is making progress toward fixing the problem it is especially shameful that an organization making millions of dollars of year would seemingly choose to steal from a Hong-Kong based website that is only looking to promote China."
I would like to point out that all content on this site (unless otherwise specified) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. So if someone wants to quote verbatum on a personal blog that's great, but please give attribution for each article. If you write something here you own your content, if you go with the default license that means others can use your content too but only if they don't change it and share alike, if you want to use a different license for your content that's great too, you own it.
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I guess I can now say that I
I guess I can now say that I have been banging on about this subject long enough for folks to think I have some special grudge against Chris Devonshire-Ellis, so before I go any further, I'll say again that I have never met the man and have had no dealings with him. I have, however, come across his incredibly dishonest styles in the Sino-blogosphere before. In fact, this is not even the first time I have heard of one of his publications directly copying something from another - but in that case it was The Economist! Here's what he said when he was emailed about it:
"Concerning the Economist piece, it was actually written by my colleague Rosario diMaggio in Guangzhou for Interfax, the Russian News agency with whom we have a publishing JV. The Economist pretty much copied it. The text is ours orginally [sic]. "
Strangely enough though, it was him who ended up taking it down, funny that.
Guys, don't let Chris take advantage of you - send him a cease-and-desist letter asking him to take the offending article off his website.
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