Hi Mark
Interesting email. This guy is not "writing about" anything. He is just
"copying and pasting".
Copying content "word for word" breaches copyright anywhere in the world.
That's why there's such thing as copyright and laws of plagiarism. Copying
images of a particular photographer without their consent is the same.
Legally,
it is theft.
Sure, if there was some of this guy's own research in there then the case
for plagiarism may not be as strong, but he has certainly added nothing to the
pages of mine he has copied. And there is a lot of stuff he could have
written about. Like I said he has even copied my mistakes.
Merlin, myself and others have spent months and months compiling this stuff,
talking to people, sourcing photographs, agreeing the content - and more
importantly crediting everyone involved. This guy credits nobody.
It's that simple.
Kind regards.
Rob
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