Philip knows what you are doing...
This week is rather a fun (?) week for fake Facebook fan pages and people copy-pasting contents coming from a blog without doing proper credit to its hard-working writers, which leads me to quote a line coming from one of my favorite manga titles, Gimmick!
“We work day and night and she pays me peanuts.” – Kohei Nagase, SFX make-up artist
Where do I start, oh yes, the people who copy-paste content from the other blog that I am working at, JEFusion. To those who don’t know the site, it means you are not interested that much in tokusatsu or some of its other content such as anime news and the like. You see, while looking for a decent OOO Sagozo Combo image, I saw a blog with the exact content like that of JEFusion.
From every hyperlink to every Kamen Rider related article, it is really copy pasted. This isn’t the first time I saw the same thing, I also saw other blogs who does the same thing…but the big difference is the fact that he never credits our blog much! He credits JEFusion as this: [His name] and thanks to JEFusion something. Come on! We worked hard to give you articles that sound professional by those people who never took journalism classes (Well, that is my case, not sure, if Geki takes journalism classes...)! That is the thanks that we get?! At least it is better compared to other blogs that I saw that never gave credit!
Geki confronted the guy and he replied that he is just a fan of our work that is why he copies every bit of our article into his blog. I find it not supporting JEFusion. If I would make it in an anime sense, you can consider yourself supporting the anime if you watch it legally or buy its official merchandise. Copy pasting an entire article without making proper credit is simply plagiarizing someone’s work, which is a complete violation of GekiDan and UkiyaSeed’s intellectual property rights!
Geki is taking actions with the guy and the other fan page that copy pastes our work. There’s another page that does it but accordingly, he will stop. Hope he will indeed stop.
Now on the recent events that happened in our official fan page, to those who don’t know, most fan pages were attacked by a certain user named Michael something and at first, he created a fake Anime Pinas Network fan page. After it closed, he created a fake ZEN Otaku Honbu fan page and now, he created a fake Orends: Range fan page!
As I said in my status update, it simply means that we are making a presence in the Pinoy Anime Community and that alone is enough to tell me that even if we have few fans in our Facebook account or less views of the blog coming from the Philippines (We have more views… IN AMERICA!), it simply means that people want to imitate us.
So, like the other fake Facebook fan pages before it, report the fake fan page so that it would not confuse those people who will follow our Facebook account. To those who has just read this article, here is the link of our official fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/orendsrange
Why do the action? You see the internet is the new Wild West, no rules but it doesn’t mean that you should not maintain order; hence, there are sheriffs around to maintain this lawless place with bounty hunter to hunt down the rule breakers. So…
See you later, cyberspace cowboy.
