Hi Harish,
Your concern and anguish are understandable.There are some common topics like a Balance Scorecard, 360 degree appraisal or various other things for that matter which are available anywhere easily and can be copied much more easily due to our poor copyright laws.Even the copy cat also doesn't know the exact source from where he/she has got that information.That is the pathetic condition prevailing here.In order to restrict this and avoid copyright violations, we cannot stop the knowledge sharing by which we shall be depriving the members from getting benefitted.So while it is best left to the individuals to honour the actual writer or contributor it is always advisable to mark a line between the original and a duplicate so that the members also do not carried away assuming that everything which is being contributed in the forums by various members are original contributions of the members.So how best it can be done is left to the discretion of the contributors who atleast should give credit to the original writer/contributor wherever possible and wherever such credit is available or atleast they should mention the origin of that article or contribution.
Administrators also should be more vigilant about these copyright violations as they have to face stringent action if any such copyright violations are noticed by the sources abroad who have very strict copyright laws.

I would like to see some more reactions on this.

Cheers!
Pradeep

Hi Harish,

Thanks a million for taking the initiative!

I support the idea and I'm for implementing it.

Unlike a human, our code would not be able to identify if the post is original content written by the member or if the due credit is given by providing the link to the source. So, this needs human involvement - if members can report it, our editorial team would review and deactivate the topic in question.

Looking forward to hearing from other members... would appreciate ideas and suggestions on how we should go about implementing it.

RK

Thanks Harish,

If you remember, we did discuss about this in different forums/posts/news in our replies, plenty of times...

But now that you have made a separate post for it, I hope it reaches out to many who unfortunately share someone else's knowledge without giving any value by NOT sharing the original link.

We did post few links whenever we thought that particular post was not an original take/view!

What are we going to gain like this?! nothing!
e.g. Any one can type "motivation" in Google and get plenty of articles to read & learn from !
if we are to share something here, it should be along with out own thoughts/ideas/views/personal experiences as well...then would it carry some meaning to read & discuss about it…

HRLink is not a place to copy-paste the already published articles, unless there is an active & meaningful debate on it...

If we look closely the only active topics which are most read/debated/answered are those which are original thoughts/questions/doubts & queries/suggestions... isn’t it?!


So why copy paste? when all of us are blessed with fresh, new & innovative ideas !


I hope this spreads around fast enough to avoid having repeated topics & articles burrowed from else where...


Diana

Thanks Pradeep. I agree when you say we need to leave it to individual members' discretion. My point is, a well experienced professional on the site can understand this, but what about a fresher or someone who doesnt have a clue even about these terms ? leave alone knowing some of these things, some of these fancy terms are corporate induced.

I repeat, I am NOT against knowledge sharing. I have always been open to learn and teach, in all situations, from anyone irrespective of the level difference, if any. My contention is for not giving due credit, at least copy paste the link that you copied the matter from. Thats the least we expect on a professional site like ours.

Maybe we should have an accountability factor to be considered here before we let members post in forums. Maybe we can request RK to make provision for asking the source of the material at the time of posting. Or, we should have some text which cautions the members about using articles written by others or something like that.

Lets have more members participate and see how they take it.

RK, thanks for the suggestion. In fact, me and Diana have been doing it quite regularly. :)

I must say these gentle reminders dont work. From what I have noticed, members who post such articles, hardly care to check back the responses. Least of all gentle reminders.

Diana, your views please.