Yahoo India and content theft

We read about content theft from individual blog sites here and here.

Now, Yahoo India steals content from a blog.

Yahoo India launched a beta version of their Malayalam (an Indian Language) portal and what do they do to fill their pages? Lift content just straight from small web magazines and blogs without asking a word or adequately compensating for those. What a shame!

We all like the idea of giants like Yahoo launching multiple Indian language portals. But that doesn’t give Yahoo India the right to lift contents, word by word and put those on their Malayalam portal.

View Suryagayathri's food blog.

They have copied some(6 and counting) of her recipes word by word. The only thing is that they changed the picture. What an easy way to cook up a portal. I can only laugh and sympathize at their confidence that their portal wont be read :). What other reason to copy contents?

They would have thought it is very easy to lift content from her blog, since she is a housewife sitting in a small town in Kerala, India. They won’t even think she would protest. But yeah, she figured it out and is indeed protesting.

I am vehemently joining in her protest!

In my opinion, I think Yahoo needs to compensate her for this content theft adequately. I don’t think it is acceptable to just silently remove the contents like most of them do without even giving a decent apology. Imagine what riot it would have caused if it was the other way? Huge corporations like them have the time, machine and money. What do individual blog owners do?

Since Yahoo’s servers are here in U.S won’t the U.S Law be applicable?

(Yahoo India - Malayalam Portal has lifted content from another web magazine too, but when the concerned party send an email, Yahoo India silently removed the contents even without a reply or apology)

Note: Yahoo has launched other language portals too. Kindly check if one your recipes or article is there.

If you want to comment, kindly leave a comment on Suryagayathri's post too.

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