DECEPTION CASE #02: @mohammadsajad Photo Plagiarism on Steemit
While steem price is growing everyday it seems we really have to be prepared for another wave of scammers and plagiarists coming in. Being an artist which works pretty often being stolen by various blogs whatsoever, I have no mercy for such people trying to monetize using stolen photographs
Here is Case #02 from my side more related to photography, while @art-venture normally covers other art plagiarism cases in WOX community)
The story is pretty easy again. Obviously I do not have any possibility to monitor all the photography posts on steemit. But when it comes to the point that somebody posts at WOX or, even more, enters my daily photography contests, I do my best to keep the door closed to all plagiarism cases. Sooner or later it becomes clear anyway...
So when @mohammadsajad entered my contest with pretty decent entry week ago and briefly looking through his blog a couple of clear stolen photography matches were found at once. But gave one week more to see what he is going to post next.
And last photo added in his blog was like a "Red Flag", since it is really well known and spread widely on webs
Match #01
https://steemit.com/hive-119463/@mohammadsajad/my-best-photograph-ever
I definitely remember this kitty (its too much cute not to remember). The image was cropped with black lines from top and bottom. Maybe to make it look more like a smartphone or maybe to make google search more difficult.
There are plenty of matches and most probably all images taken from initial video (at least one year old) with 7 mln views...
https://twitter.com/madebybaskan/status/1243190160071761920
The description provided to the post
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Here i post a picture i took with my mobile camera in my orchard .. my cat and almond blossoms both are so so beautiful that i could not resist myself capturing this beautiful moment and also can not resist myself from posting it in the community i was just working in my orchard and my cat tried to get on to the almond tree and i put her on the branch and clicked the photo........i hope this community will help me to get some reputation on steemit ..... Thanks
Unqte
Oh well, you will not get ANY reputation. And lets go further
Match #02
https://steemit.com/hive-114435/@mohammadsajad/kashmir-the-paradise-on-earth
Source (multiply matches)
Again, square crop of even more popular photo in internet. A lot of matches and one of them
https://twitter.com/Rainbow_vt8/status/1371798672401330183/photo/2
Full set of photos there by the way...
Match #03
https://steemit.com/flowers/@mohammadsajad/7kwjjg-photography
Than one taken just from official tourist site of Kashimir. Again, somehow cropped to make it look more panoramic
https://traveltriangle.com/blog/tulip-garden-srinagar/
Match #04
https://steemit.com/hive-104522/@mohammadsajad/2zdab-kashmir-a-heaven-on-earth
First photo is taken from at least 3 years ago post of RisingKashimir newspaper
Second is from Greater Kashimir
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/opinion/badamwari-come-one-come-all/
Third one from Official site of Department of tourism
What a mess....
Just to mention that instagram profile indicated doesn't show any photographic skills https://www.instagram.com/iumjahan
And I will not go any deep to 2 years ago history of this user, which is at first sight full of plagiarized photography of very high quiality. 4 clear cases is more than enough...
At this point @steemcurator01 is very welcome to continue support with fighting such plagiarists and make steemit cleaner place for everybody
Great works! This kind of works will put more value and quality on out amazing platform.
Thanks again Axeman, we need to take care of each other’s work. Steemit needs to take part on this cases of cheating, and take some action when this happens. This post is resteem, I will share in my Twitter and I will report that person. Regards.
This is very unfortunate but im glad those ones have been brought to light. We all have to be vigilant. Thanks for the dedication
It is true that as soon as the Price for Steem and SBD went up we see many people starting posting. But everything would be fine if people posts something from their own life, garden as well phones with camera and we all can write. But this is the time when such liars will try to deceive and get more for the property of others.
Thank you for revealing such case, very well done post!
Another one:
https://steemit.com/hive-104522/@mohammadsajad/muska-the-beautiful-kashmir
is the same photo from:
https://www.facebook.com/panunkashmeer/photos/837004990218896
Está claro que hay gente que quiere aprovechar el talento de los demás pot eso agradezco edte control que está haciendo.
Un saludo
Hello @axeman, I am glad to see that you work against plagiarism. I mean this kind of thing generates frustration and outrage. Here we have new users, as in my case, we do our best to give the best of ourselves and many times they are not valued, in fact, they go unnoticed. it's frustrating.
It is very unfortunate in this case...
A few days ago I praised mohammadsajad's work and he turned out to be a plagist. I feel angry that we give encouragement to our colleagues in Steemit, to continue to do wonderful work and it turns out to be a lie!!!!
Thank you @axeman for always keeping us informed about these cases.
There’s nothing more infuriating than someone taking credit for someone else work. I think such post should be removed.
Good spot, there needs to be some clear indicator in the user interface to show users that have plagiarized. The reputation system works to an extent but I think it needs to be made clearer to warn other users in future. Are there black lists for the community?
Yes, In WOX we do blacklist such users. Unfortunately we can't do much generally on a steemit level, so they are still free to continue posting elsewhere