Top Nigerian online newspaper,
DailyPost has commenced immediate legal action against naij.com over
piracy of its several news reports. DailyPost had in a statement released on
Sunday night lamented over naij.com’s incessant use of its hard earned
materials without permission, stating that it is unfortunately criminal and an
unforgiven act for naij.com to tiptoe into its website and
obtain information it knows little or nothing about, claiming to be the owner
of the said stolen and plagiarized news with all sassiness.
The news organization further
affirmed that it was a sad development that a news website like Naij.com, that
is supposed to know the legal implication of plagiarism to continue to lift its
materials WORD FOR WORD. It said that the only additional work noticed in the
copied version of several of its original stories uncovered on Naij.com was the
removal of DailyPost from the text.
A search on naij.com showed
that more than 80 news items were copied over the last few weeks.
DailyPost believes that the brazen
stealing of its content by naij.com must henceforth stop as it has this
time around refused to ignore the continuous act of intellectual property
abuse. The online newspaper said it will stop just at nothing but to drag
Naij.com to a competent court of law for a proper interpretation on what the
law says on content piracy.
In obvious angst, DailyPost Content
Editor, Adoyi Ali who reacted to the development said, ‘’it’s shameful that
Naij.com could not change even a line in the stories we exclusively reported”
Adoyi said such act was not only
criminal but debasing. He said the development further revealed that that
Naij.com was slothfully relying on already made news for survival. He said ‘’we
are determined and not emotionally swayed to look away when things are
gradually taking the most unfortunate dimension. The question is where is the
sanity we use our medium to preach, if we all continue in this plagiarism madness?
‘’
Already, all legal processes have
commenced, as DailyPost’s lawyer is already putting all proofs together to
legally nail naij.com.
The company said it would have
ignored the very act of impunity, but for posterity, and for the sake of what
journalism means in a country that is presently struggling to bail itself out
of some deep decadence, it will fight the battle to finish.
See proofs of copied contents below:
1: EXCLUSIVE: Tension in Deeper Life
camp as Kumuyi breaks down during Easter Retreat, under treatment
Naij.com version (link)
Naij.com version (screenshot)
Naij.com version (link)
Naij.com version (screenshot)
Naij.com version (link)
Naij.com version (screenshot)
3: Search of copied contents (link)
Search of copied content (screenshots)
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