I just saw the cover of the Icon Weekly Magazine featuring my article which I first wrote and published here on Nairaland on the 30th of June.

The article centred on 30 divorced cases that shook Nollywood and it made front page with over 50,500 views.

Icon Weekly Magazine just copied my well written article in their August edition. I doubt if they gave credit to me as the writer or to Nairaland as the platform through which other bloggers copied the article.

Meanwhile, below is the link to the article am talking about here on Nairaland:

https://www.nairaland.com/1793645/divorced-cases-shook-nollywood-photos#24373431

Sue them..... Na your chance to hammer be this o.....

If you lose this opportunity don't blame the federal government for unemployment again....

Sue them

frankben: Sue them..... Na your chance to hammer be this o

imagine, they just copied the article verbatim. and other blogs that carried it recently gave the credit to Icon Weekly Mag

Tell me something?...lol
Congrats dearie...
Ohh, it's a case of copyright?
Sue them. 200million...
The economy is too hard, so don't sleep on duty sweetie.
Hope u av gotten a hard copy(copies) as evidence, not this 'screengrab'.
I actually read that article and I enjoyed it.

Nigeria

sue them!!!.. I dont mind bn your witness in court.

[size=18pt]Intellectual theft and laziness on the part of Icon Magazine![/size]

Get at least five copies of this particular edition and keep for record purposes. These print houses are very crafty and can easily do a print line withdrawal and then print same edition but without your article. They will claim not to have ever featured stolen your property.
I had similar experience with a top national tabloid. They ran a half-page ad for me on the 29th of July, 2014 with a poor print quality but when I complained they simply did a better print overnight and claimed not to be responsible for my evidential copy.

Plagiarism at it peak......

Bdb

It's called copy and paste.

Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop ...

Boy, you don hammer

Sooo?!


Who reads that gossip softsell anyways?


_{The Author however should grab multiple copies of the Paper and sue them for copyright infringement or plagerism. Consult a lawyer first though as you didnt copyright protect the article nor did you place a caveat on the reuse and reproduction of it without consent. Na so one of my post on Tonto Dike go viral and I no get any credit whatsoever for am. By now, I would have been pricing land in Banana Island from the back of my Range Rover HSE Sports autobiography (Juju Edition).}

They couldn't pay Seun or de op....Nigerians stealing from it's people since daybreak

Sorry bro. you need to get a lawyer and sue them for plagiarism.

Wow.

Chie I am pretty sure you have all them celebrities reading threads on nairaland like their lives depends on it.

Ok

rokiatu: Chie I am pretty sure you have all them celebrities reading threads on nairaland like their lives depends on it.

Yup! However, many will deny being on Nairaland.

Op, did you get a copy write on that stuff? If no, then millions just pass you by. Never ignore little ideas. That's a big lesson.

Sue dem bro

You should be thankful that this has happened.

Sue their asses till the last cent.

Sure, they would say that you had no written copyright on the article. I stopped writing articles on Facebook because of people just copy and pasted without the simple task of giving me credit. As long as you can prove your identity on NL, show other articles you have done in the past, show your research on this particular article, then you have no problem.

Sue them, big money. They will come to you with an out of court settlement, which I would advise that you negotiate well and get paid. Also ensure that they publicly apologise too, on their paper and other selected papers.

Congrats in advance.

Nairaland leads, others Copy