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ujchief: Keep quoting irrelevant rules and ignore the core issue. You should try and know copyright rules the way you know nl rules.

Lol, why am I not surprised? It's ok to discuss a plagiarist but your cowardice and law breaking should be left unattended to?

I know copyright laws. The rules and regulations of the literature section inculcates it.

What you guys are asking is the connection between Nairaland and these copyright laws. Or how Nairaland intends to prevent this incident from reoccurring.

And I have asked you all to be patient. How do you get a solution in a tense environment?

It distracts the purpose and doesn't get anything done. Can we all calm down, be composed, so Seun can address the matter?
For Christ sake, we are adults.

The so called threads with scammers on the FrontPage has not refunded or recovered the funds. Hasn't it been derailed with unnecessary side comments and insults?

ujchief: You think?
I've seen stories of people getting duped here on nairaland by either a fellow nairalander or someone else. Such stories are taken to frontpage immediately; and seun himself once stated in one of such threads that he does it to inform people that nairaland doesn't condone scamming, also, to discourage potential scammers.

Why won't this plagiarism story be taking to frontpage to educate potential plagiarist that nairaland doesn't condone plagiarism, and by so doing, scare away potential plagiarists??

Frontpage isn't the only thing I was advocating for, your writers wants to know the extent your privacy policy covers there works? If someone copies my work here on nl and I sue him, his defence attorney is going to ask me if my work was originally protected where it was.
This is what seun has refused to answer, thereby, creating a huge doubt on the mind of nairaland writers.

Just to let you know that using multiple ids on the same thread is a capital offence. Except it's authorized by the admins or your previous handle was banned and you had to create another one. It can be detected and if one is caught, the handles would be banned. Just an advise.

As per your question, I will answer you shortly.

I will ask Seun to address the matter. The question of Copyright and Content protection wasn't directed at me.

He will be in a better position to address this. He knows the laws and constitution concerning this on Nairaland more than I do.

Thanks.

ujchief: Seun has an ugly habit of ignoring stuffs like this, hoping it will die down and things returns to normal with time.

The story of unical sacking 10 of its lecturers due to plagiarism hit front page this morning https://www.nairaland.com/1227071/unical-sacks-4-lecturers-demotes
While his writers here at nairaland are demanding for explanations to his copyright rules and crying fowl of the same plagiarism yet he turns a blind eye and a deaf ear!

He needs to respond to this and clarify issues; else, I suggest that you all, as writers of nairaland section start another thread, informing all nairalanders that henceforth, you guys are on an indefinite strike and no more uploads and stories until seun responds.

He should learn to lend a listening ear when need be.

Even the mod is yet to address the question of copyright and content protection!

EMBARK ON AN INDEFINITE STRIKE NOW!!!

This is a process.
For the issue of copyright and content protection to be addressed, proper research and measures have to be in place
We can decide to type and write from morning till night without proffering a solution. But I am a practical person (i.e. solutions and action)
Once this has been settled, then we will table our solution to the writers

As per the frontpage, what difference would it make?
Where did the plagiarist claim to have gotten the stories from?
Are we trying to educate people that stories can be stolen on here? Do we need more offenders?
What is the usefulness of the FrontPage in this matter? Would it solve the problem at hand?
Would it arrest plagiarists?
Sometimes I wonder what the fuss about the FrontPage is?
Advocating for FrontPage shows misplaced priority and irresponsibility(no offence).
A long lasting solution and security is the main concern.

@All: Please, don't get worked up. That won't solve anything.
The deed has already been done.
The management is vigilant.
It takes an experience to enlighten one on how to deal with matters like this.
Rome wasn't built in a day, different options/solutions have to be sampled and selected wisely
Y'all need to be patient.
Once again, sorry for the inconvenience. It is well!