To the people who are copying this blog…
April 16, 2008 by Schnee
Hey guys, there are now about 3 or 4 of you readers who come here several times a day, copy the posts here and post them on your blogs, don’t give credit, as if you are writing them.
Now, you might be new to blogging, so let me give you a lesson. When you copy from someone, at least give them credit. It is not fair for you to take OUR words and post them as if they are yours.
You need to put the source in each post. So if you get it from us, you credit us. If you get it from tokiofans? You credit them.
Blogging does not mean you COPY/PASTE someone else’s work. Hope that helps. You can copy the news, sure.
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you are to be commended Vanja. :)
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It’s obvious that people who take a text from someone else should credit that person. You must always write a source of everything that you take from someone else to show respect.
I hope the people who don’t credit you (or someone else who they take their text from) will start to do that now! Really good that you bring it up! :D
I have a blogg in swedish about Tokio Hotel, and yes I can take sometimes a text from someone else but I ALWAYS credit them. Sometimes I even change the text but I always write the source. It’s veeeeery important to write the source.
//Vanja (Sweden)
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well, as along as you told it where you got i from, (credit) it’s all right.. right?
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I admit that I have translated the news from here into Danish and then put it on a Danish site – but I always tell them where I got it from.
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I totally agree. I love this blog and I really think the owner (owners?) is doing a great (!) job with it. If I ever use something that’s been written here or even tell someone about the info, I always write/say where it’s from. I mean.. Why shouldn’t I? Everyone should, like you others say, give credit to whoever give the fans information about something. And like I said before; this blog is GREAT (like you didn’t already know.. haha) and I could honestly say that it’s one of the best I know of.
Btw, (yeah I know it doesn’t apply to the subject.. but) could someone PLEASE be an angel and tell me if there are still tickets left to Bamboozle? And if so, where can I buy one?
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I credit you and other blog/forum etc.. every time! :)
i’m sure.. and it’s very bad that people don’t do this.. (like my translations to italian……-_-)
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ALL YOU OUT THERE WHO CAN’T GET YOUR OWN INFO………DIE TRYING. ugh. *rolls eyes* people who copy other peoples posts and stuff are such losers! goes to show how awesome THA is though. :) but seriously, this is really sad. people are so unoriginal these days. *sighs in frustration*
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ouch… i did that once when i posted a blog on myspace..i said that bill was sick which i got it from this site..but wat makes it funny is that i suggested that he cancels the whole tour which exactly happened almost 2 weeks after i suggested it!!
let me got credit you guyz now….sry!!!!
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I was so sure there would be people out there copying this blog cus you guys always have the latest news and are always updating. It’s really good. Keep up the amazing work! We appreciate it.
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Okay, okay, I’m the owner of the fanstress blog. I just want to say sorry for this and I’m new to blogging anyway. So I don’t really know the rules. I’ve credited all of my blog. Thanks for telling me this. =)
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that’s wrong.
credits should go to who they belong to :]
and this is the best place for news not even the UK forum gets the news before TH america does :]
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I have post a few,But I do give credit!!!
To this site,and the sources!!
By the way!!
This is my #1 source!!
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Ooh, right, okay. Thanks for the info 8)
I was just also thinking about the fact that when
texts/interviews/news or whatever are translated into another language, it would be nice to get the _original_ source, which is sometimes missing from the Finnish sites. That’s just what I would expect to find.
Like some texts that are taken from here, but naturally not “word to word” since it’s another language. But yeah, I don’t know, I’m just happy I don’t own a site : D
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I am Spanish and I have access to many other sites about TH but this American site is a reference to me i love this site, it is original, shows initiative, always updated, is even better than the official pages group please respect copyrights respect the hard work create your own content, respect this site is to respect the group ¡
Respect the hard work of its creators who are fans like all of us ¡¡
PD: Excuse my English :)
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Rufflebutt, i didnt know you had another blog? lol,,
thieves…..*sigh
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Sailor, no it is appropriate to give credit unless you do all the news hunting and translating yourself. There are many TH news to report about and yet those blogs copy us WORD by WORD, our exact entries in the exact same order. it’s not ethical to let soembody else do the news gathering, and then just hit ctr+c and ctrl+v and pretend like you’re not copying another blog.
Take this blog for instance and compare it with THA:
http://thkaulitz89.wordpress.com/
They have copied everything, entry by entry. Not very ethical nor nice.
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there s no problem in passing the news around, but its whenever they write it that implies that it was them that wrote it, such as “we heard..” etc,,
i think thats what rufflebutt meant sailor, right? oO
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Sailor in short yes. If there is new video/interview from boys of course you will repost it, but don’t copy the words of original blogger where it says something like ‘OMG, they are so sweet’. Take the news and run your own commentary.
Thanking the news finder for scoop won’t hurt though and credit translations always.
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so it’s okay to just put the news on your site without any link to the original source or anything?
If you don’t use the words, “We heard…” or so on, it’s okay?
sorry, I’m just confused O_o’
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I know how you feel.. people do that with my site all the time :s and thats so annoying if you type all the stuff yourself
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tsk tsk tsk people! say no to piracy!! even ideas. not good.
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*frowns*
credit THA, credit THA, credit THA.. just keep on saying that over and over again until you remember to write it, and then no one gets mad, right guys?.. good ^_^
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Really?? Thats sad. It just goes to show how awsome this blog is!
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I don’t care if they use it, just please don’t post things that say “I did this” or “We heard from Blender”.
Thanks Mehak!!!!!!!!
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http://tokiohotelfanstress.blogspot.com/
Have already stopped it. If you check their blog, they apologised.
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Thank GOD!
I’ve been waiting for this – and I totally agree.
You deserve credit; everyone whose words are used deserve it!
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*shakes head*
shame on whoever does this. THA brings the news before ANYONE and they deserve the credit! jeez, people.