Dear TV FIX
It’s wonderful that you are reading my website and finding my stories of great interest.
But next time you decide one of my interviews is so newsworthy it is worth re-reporting, how about acknowledging the source?
A Howzat interview appears in edited form on your website without any attribution. The byline by writer Rebecca Isaacs completely overlooks that I went to the set to watch filming and interviewed cast.
That’s what I do for my readers.
TV FIX on the other hand files next to no TV news (most of which is lifted from the US), let alone breaks any TV scoops. This is despite the voluminous traffic you have, and the entire backing of NineMSN -I am a team of 1.
I have no problem with aggregating of my content so long as sites follow online practice of:
a) acknowledge source with an active link.
b) never take 100% of story.
c) re-write and embellish with your own perspective.
This is how I conduct aggregation so that readers always have the option of going back to the story for more of the story. Win / win.
To lift these quotes and re-package as your own story is sloppy, bordering on plagiarism.
Kindly provide an active link immediately and to all content aggregated from this site.
Regards,
David Knox
Jonthon Holmes is your friend ;o)
Only just caught my ‘TV fix’ on the one-and-only TV Tonight late today and offer you my belated sympathy and indeed, empathy, I’ve had a few works pinched myself over the years so I know your pain.
Don’t let it bother you DK. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then plagiarism is high praise indeed. Noli illegitimi carborundum. (don’t let the bastards wear you down!)
At least Ch 9 have credited you ( TV Tonight ) when they have used one of your quotes in a review, in the latest commercial for the show
Good for you for publicly giving them a shout-out like this. Plagiarism is rife on news websites and it is always wrong. That website is not fit to tie this one’s shoelaces, anyway, it is nowhere near the quality of this site.
austvarchive..I refer to this general issue in a comment in the TV Lounge. I don’t think this good enough or acceptable.
Time for the networks who invest so much energy in griping at each other to call a moratorium on that and join with the others in addressing copyright and piracy issues.
It frankly blows me away to see a network on one hand depend so much on saturation advertising (which they know audiences despise), and yet on the other quite willingly cooperate in activities that cut across their financial and material well being and ‘distinctive’ brand.
It isn’t rocket science to generate reasonable solutions to many of these matters. Perhaps shareholders need to start becoming more savvy and asking better questions.
Welcome to the media industry! – this is sort of thing is becoming far too common these days. The amount of archival material lifted from our our youtube channel and being used without aknowledgement (or payment) by the media is amazing. Puberty Blues used the soundtrack from “Mr Sheen” commercial we saved and is on youtube in the background in one scene (never mind it was the wrong year). Today Tonight & ACA also regularly lifts our clips cropping out the watermark where possible. Normally these sort of archival supply services would attract a fee (that is after all how we can afford to save/archive new material) But at the very least an aknowledgment or plug of the source would be appreciated. Sadly in todays industry its a free for all grab…
I agree with Maev. They should apologise as well as acknowledge the source plus what you wanted.
Good luck with this and you do a lot of work for your wonderful site. You don’t deserve such treatment.
Thanks guys. Don’t reckon it is Media Watch worthy when a link can easily resolve.
I used to have a look at TVFix but quit when I realised pretty much everything of real interest was being reported much better on this site. The occasional slide-show top 10 was sometimes an indulgent bit of fun but even they have lost their charm.
Me too Bella,this is the only tv site I visit as well.
I still can’t believe that someone has blatantly gone and done this.You should give credit where it’s due.This is not fair play and it’s rude.This is someone not willing to make an effort,either by acknowledging the original author or writing an original piece of their own.Very lazy writing.
This could be a good item for “Media Watch”
TV Fix’s articles are fairly poor and the site is run to promote Channel 9.
It doesn’t a have a handy TV guide that is good for tracking where the networks have moved your favorite shows to this week.
Just so you know I choose thus reliable web site for my tv fix! Thank you & I hope they acknowledge you hard work!
Go David! This is the only TV site I visit.
Well put David. I have just reported it to Media Watch. I’ll let you know if they reply to me.
Well said, I love it. Have they responded to you David?
Btw..I did post a comment on their site suggesting I was sure I had read the same piece on TV Tonight a few days before and where was the attribution to David Knox. No surprise it wasn’t published.
Low-life bastards. David, you are being too kind. This wasn’t anywhere near the border of Plagiarism – that would be if they stole your work but paraphrased and acknowledged it. No, this is well within the borders, somewhere on the outskirts of the capital city of Plagiarism.
Buuurn TV FIX!
I’m sure I’ve read this before somewhere
Let us know how many hours/days/weeks it takes for TV Fix to even respond, let alone do as you asked. Arrogant lot, aren’t they?
Never heard of them….and it really annoys me…as you…David …put sooo much effort…single handedly….into making this The Best Australian Blog….for which you were suitably awarded….
Respect people…and an immediate apology would also be in order!
Have been there,that’s why I’m here.
Media Watch.
I hate that site.
Never heard of this site and it looks like i have no reason to ever visit.
Not fair.Well said David.
Well said, David.
@ johntv .. lol
David, you know what is going to happen because they are too lazy to check anything they will probably re-post this article on their site
Well said David. Plagiarism is a soft person’s cheat.
Whilst dealing with property rights…I would welcome urging Network 9 to please attend to the UK people flooding the Official Aussie BB site with pirated video links. These people are ripping Aussie and UK BB and putting them up online before the Networks do. They are constantly promoting US live feeds, UK show and now Brazil. They’ve done it for two days now. When will 9 moderators remove these pirated links and actually protect their own property!
yeah you tell ‘em David
TV Fix equals lazy b’stards
Agree with you 100% on this David.Being kinda new to the forums here I’m amazed that you put all this out by yourself…and a simple attribution to you would have been the least they ought to have done.
“To lift these quotes and re-package as your own story is sloppy, bordering on plagiarism.”
Bordering?
Well said David. I must admit I do follow the links you put in many of your stories, and it seems only fair other repay the favour.
Go David!
Wow! That’s terrible. Go get ‘em Dave!
Haha. David before I found your site I used TV FIX. But at the start of the year, they reduced their news stories and for about 3 weeks the only new news, pictures, galleries were on The Voice.
Your site has a much better range and I like your TV updates (which is necessary to keep up with series in Aust.)
Fair call, pretty much the one thing you can do, call them out.
I hate that website, they are so obviously pro-Nine in all their articles and their actual content (or “news”) is 99% garbage. Mostly crap on the Kardashians or US Gossip crap with no substance.
I’m not surprised they’d try and steal content from a superior website