Web Publishing Ethics – How Abstractartimages.com Illegally Edited/Re-Published My Writing
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Abstractartimages.com has ruined an article I wrote, “ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM IN ART IS REALLY PRIMAL REALISM”, by changing the original wording in ways that are grammatically incorrect, awkward, imprecise, and entirely different from the meanings I intended, thereby infringing on my copyright and violating the terms of use for re-publishing my article.
Writers Beware, Publishers Be Warned
This hub is a consumer alert for fellow writers, and a critical review for web publishers who wish to use copyrighted articles legally. Towards this end, I point to an established web publisher, The Center Of Abstract Art Images, associated with the website, abstractartimages.com, where the webmaster has demonstrated incompetence, ignorance, and apathy in regard to publishing one of my original articles about abstract expressionism.
I have now been involved in two different cases where two different web publishers misused my articles.
In the first case, the web publisher carelessly allowed her name to be credited to my exact words in an article I wrote, which she posted in her blog, without giving me credit as the original author. When I called her on it, she claimed that she misunderstood the publisher terms of use attached to my article. I still have difficulty accepting how an intelligent person could misunderstand the precise wording of those very clear terms of use. Fortunately, my article eventually disappeared from her blog altogether.
Problem solved.
In the second case (my current case) of article misuse, the web publisher inflicts a more insidious insult, because he or she has exercised care to include my name with the article, but the article that he or she actually posted is a horribly re-worded version of the original. What this webmaster has presented and credited to my name is one of the worst examples of editing that I have ever seen (i.e., an abomination of writing that I would NEVER allow in plain view for the entire world to see, let alone allow my name to be associated with it).
I have sent three emails to the “contact us” address of the offending website, asking the webmaster to respect my copyright and to adhere to my article terms of use. So far, I have received NO response.
I have seen NO corrective action.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The ... good article ...(my original) appears at ezinearticles.com, a well-known source of short, content-rich articles, specifically intended for re-publishing on the internet. Clearly-stated terms of use forbid publishers from altering these articles in any way.
The ... bad re-write ...(nothing original, or competent, about it) appears at abstractartimages.com, a website whose webmaster apparently needs to work on his or her English composition skills. Even more, this webmaster needs to improve his or her knowledge of copyrights.
Presenting the entire text of each article would cause hubpages to treat this hub as an unacceptable copy. Ugly details of the bad re-write, therefore, are illustrated in the following table that lists ONLY my good article words, which the offending webmaster changed in the bad re-write. I hope this table serves as jolting constructive evidence of how writing can go terribly wrong, ... intellectually, ethically, and legally.
I summarize below the table.
How A GOOD Article Falls To BAD Re-Writing
G O O D ... ARTICLE
| B A D ... RE-WRITE
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|---|---|
locations
| areas
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Similarly
| Equally
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taste
| style
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smell
| scent
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hearing
| listening to
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unique
| special
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idea
| concept
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In other words
| In other phrases
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long before
| extended before
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much more fundamental
| a a lot a lot more basic
|
analysis of
| examination of
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record keeping
| report keeping
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means of resonating
| implies of resonating
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perform
| execute
|
activities
| actions
|
seems to have
| would seem to have
|
Instead
| As an alternative
|
has everything to do with
| has every little thing to do with
|
people
| folks
|
simply to sense the world
| just feeling the globe
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to respond
| to react
|
involved
| concerned
|
had little to do with
| had small to do with
|
through
| by means of
|
creative method
| innovative approach
|
Pollock's Proper Place
| Pollock's Correct Spot
|
opinion
| view
|
simply feel
| merely feel
|
preserve
| protect
|
flow
| movement
|
in my view
| in my watch
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area, because
| region, since
|
future photographers
| potential photographers
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fluid dynamics events
| fluid dynamics occasions
|
flow
| movement
|
wet paint
| damp paint
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more fragile
| a lot more fragile
|
drying cannot preserve
| drying can't maintain
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short-lived
| brief-lived
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delicate
| fragile
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forms
| kinds
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Consequently, if wet paint
| As a result, if moist paint
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art form
| artwork kind
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, then another, different
| , then an additional distinct
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best represents
| very best represents
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records its peaks
| data its peaks
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Creating such artefacts
| Developing this kind of artefacts
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Capture Vs Express
| Capture Vs Convey
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Using
| Making use of
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venture
| enterprise
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to capture
| to be ready to seize
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naturally
| by natural means
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There is indeed
| There is in fact
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being in the right place
| being in the correct location
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a camera
| a digital camera
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happen spontaneously
| take place spontaneously
|
further significance
| further importance
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already self-justified
| previously self-justified
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record it
| document it
|
enable
| permit
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repeated enjoyment of
| repeated pleasure of
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after it disappears
| following it disappears
|
artists create
| artists produce
|
true permanence
| correct permanence
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form of beauty
| kind of elegance
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, thus, prove that beauty
| , thus, show that attractiveness
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This active beauty, furthermore,
| This lively elegance, morever,
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artists willing it into existence
| artists inclined it into existence
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The webmaster at abstractartimages.com seems to think that English composition is a playful affair of substituting words, where he or she has no clue about gradations in meanings and usages that give true, logical cohesiveness to writing !
SUMMARY
My original article is roughly 560 words long. Roughly 80 of these words have fallen victim to the promiscuous, word-altering hands of the webmaster at abstractartimages.com. These worse-than-amateurish word alterations degrade the quality of my original article, thus, they degrade my reputation as a competent writer. My name remains falsely credited to this abomination of my original composition.
