This Hurts Me A Lot…
June 22, 2007 by Shikha
I am so happy to see so many Comments here… It feels so nice evertime, someone praises my efforts….
Thanks a lot to all the visitors to Pages From My Diary…. 
Yet…. There’s something… I would like to add here… Many People are copying my work, or in easy words…. They are stealing my work, without mentioning my name anywhere where they post it… 
And also, upon being caught up, they insist it is their work…. This really feels sad, and depressing to me… After all, I am a human Being, so these things hurt a lot…
And, this is the one major reason, I am not posting anything new here… Frankly speaking… I could not….
I know, Net world is full of these kind of people, but Its a request, this budding Poetess wants to say to all….
Please don’t do this to me… Please Help me Grow… Please Understand my Feelings… Atleast mention my name wherever u post my Work….
Again Thanks a lot… and Keep Smiling always,
God Bless You All….
Hi,
I was wondering why you went silent.
It is unfortunate that your work is being stolen.
I guess just as the internet makes it easy to publish,
it makes it even more easy to pilfer.
After all, it only takes four clicks
and a total lack of conscience, to steal your words.
I cannot think of any way you can be prevent it happening.
I understand why you found it difficult to publish.
That, I feel, is counterproductive to your cause.
It denied your readers the opportunity to read your poems.
You may also have lost some of your readers.
May I suggest that you continue to publish.
Yes some of your work will continue to be stolen,
but us readers will appreciate the majority of your work.
The more your poems get to be recognised and read
the more the chance of your readers to recognise
your work, even if they have been stolen.
Does that make sense?
In bengali we had a poet, Tagore?
We quoted his lines in our works,
but never dared to call it our own.
We knew we would be caught and ridiculed.
I hope one day your poems become as well known as being yours. .
I hope you do not think I am lecturing here, its just an opinion.
Plagiarism is a becoming a bigger menace than spams in our country.
I have this friend, whose entire blog (trust me .. post by post .. link by link .. title by title) was copied by this another chap on the net.
We finally got to know about him when he put a link to my blog on his blog and when i went to his website I was surprised to see how easily he was pretending to be the original author of the posts.
When he was told that he could be sued for this .. that was when he deleted the blog
Since then, We have woken up to the realization that Copyright is really a major issue.
Especially when you are in the creative field (as with you .. your poems are really nice), you really need to be very protective about your work.
Hope people wake up to the realization that copy-pasting wont get them anywhere in life.
All the best anyway ..
Shikha..
That is really nice .. you got your supporter already..
We know its your original.. what to worry then?
Let the people making themselves fool who steal your work. Atleast you know you the feeling of being original !
hey sweety….
dont be upset with this..
u continue doing ur good work!!!!
Nuts
Thanks a Lot EveryOne…
for your valuable opinion / comments here… That’s a great Motivation.
I could just say, I am Coming Back in Action…
Dear Shikha,
Originality within yourself matters. I understand you as it also happened with me lots of time that someone steal our contents and post on their blog to get good comments. But I think he or she never get respect within their selves because they knew they did not wrote. So even whenever he/she gets comment on their post, it is for you.
Do not resist yourself to write. Blogging is your own inner expression to the world, and you got some people who believe that you are good, that is more important than believe anybody.
I admire your blog and work sincerely.
Carry on and best of luck…..
Best Wishes,
Krunal Dave
Hi Shikha
Hope u r fine!Dont worry dear keep your hard work go on only in this way dis world wil recognize your feelings in way of poetries dear ALL THE BEST.