[or-roots] The name of the person who plagiarised my site

[Kith-n-Kin]

While we’re at it, don’t forget that this woman put 4,761 photos of grave
markers on that same site.  Photographs of tombstones that probably 10,000
people would eventually like to find, but who live in Texas or somewhere,
and can’t travel to Oregon so easily.

 

I just got through downloading about 25 photos off the Miller Cemetery site
– even though I’ve taken the same pictures myself – as a matter of
convenience.

 

It occured to me that if I should choose to include those photos in my
newest project – which is to upload a huge file to Second Site – I will have
infringed the photographer’s (a different person, near as I can tell)
copyright. So much for not going to the effort of cropping and re-sizing
mine. Oh, well.

 

I would bet that many people, perhaps some on this list, have taken
advantage of her photographs of Lee and Salem cemeteries. No? Well, only
because no one’s found something they want.  How many of you would really
hesitate an instant


 

I would also bet that you’ve seen the last of her photographs on the
cemetery site, or anywhere else that any of us can get at them.

 

I deplore, the wholesale co-opting of Stephanie and the others’ material. I
would have been screaming and yelling if it was something I’d worked hard
on. But I also understand the naïve assumption that since it’s “for the good
of genealogists everywhere” it’s ok to do.

 

I rather suspect, since I’m also doing a piece on Twp 06S Range 01W,
Willamette Meridian, and the folks who settled there, that I’ve infringed on
a whole lot of work done by other people. From the DLCs to the cemetery
records, to the writings by some of the original pioneers. Some I dug out of
the Archives, some was sent by nice people like Stephanie, some I found at
the Forum in Portland – having been extracted by our fore-mothers.  The main
difference is that (because I’m finally becoming “well-trained”) that I
always “cite my sources.”

 

Whether we call it that, or “giving credit/blame where it is due” it is sad
that this had to come to this end, and that we may have lost a good
resource.

 

I suggest, Stephanie, that you sit down, put your feet up, and sip your
favorite beverage. You’ve clearly earned a rest.

 

And, given the rest of us food for thought.

 

Pat

In Tucson 

 

 

From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Stephenie
Flora
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:18 PM
To: 'or-roots mail list'
Subject: [or-roots] The name of the person who plagiarised my site

 

I have been getting some comments off of the list regarding releasing the
name of this individual and I would like to expand on my previous comments.
First of all, I know nothing about her but I believe she may be fairly new
to genealogy.  If I were to look back on my beginning years in genealogy I
am sure there could be a book written about the mistakes I made.  

 

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