Copyright Violation

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:41 am

The article What Is DataStage? purports to be authored by Akshyat Sharma, Lead ETL Developer, Talentain Technologies.

It wasn't.

This has been stolen word for word from a document whose copyright I own, which forms part of one of my training classes and which is available as a white paper through DSXchange Learning Center

Despite my contacting Talentain with a request to take this page down they have not done so.

Please join with me in shaming that company. I suspect that several other papers on their site in which they claim authorship have also been the subject of theft.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:11 am

That sucks - particularly if the company doesn't respond and claim to hold copyright. A quick overview of the other articles seem to confirm your suspicions. They are certainly on my blacklist!

priyadarshikunal · Post by **priyadarshikunal** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:28 am

I do see it as a word to word copy from Ray's white paper and claiming to own the copyright. Shame on them.

FranklinE · Post by **FranklinE** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:06 pm

Ray, I suggest as your next step following the legal advice in this article: http://www.aiga.org/what-can-you-do-whe ... ed-online/

PaulVL · Post by **PaulVL** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:51 pm

Their company name is now on my "I'll remember you" list.

I'm not a spokeman for my company, but I don't have to recommend services from someone either.

Sad that someone would stoop so low as to steal hard work from someone else and pass it off as theirs.

I would definately pursue this claim if I were you Ray.

When the company I work for deals with vendors, they do background checks. A copyright issue is a huge deal. It will typically be enough to blacklist them. So YOU might not get anything from the endeavor... but it would surely teach them a lesson in the long run.

It's just so short sighted on their part.

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:36 pm

I Downloaded the whitepaper and compared it to the 'talentrain' website. This is so atrocious.
Forget word to word copies, even the images are bitmap copied. Using a PDF to word extractor and then composed as a HTML page.

PhilHibbs · Post by **PhilHibbs** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:40 am

According to whois, their web host is IXWEBHOSTING.COM so maybe you should contact them. Their IP address is owned by United States Columbus Ecommerce Corporation (ecommerce.com) so maybe abuse@ecommerce.com is an option.

PaulVL · Post by **PaulVL** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:00 am

Wow, seems the rest of their "talent" is also highly skilled at taking credit for other people's work. Look at this:

http://kkryczka.wordpress.com/2011/12/0 ... ttributes/

now their site

http://talentain.com/resources/datastag ... dimensions

Look at the word for word on the type two SCD.

Simply amazing.

priyadarshikunal · Post by **priyadarshikunal** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:29 am

oh well, I thought It was copied from wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension

Fishy, eh?

SURA · Post by **SURA** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:03 pm

This is called EDW??

Collecting the data from different sources and placing it in a single point of repository!!

priyadarshikunal · Post by **priyadarshikunal** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:05 pm

SURA wrote:This is called EDW