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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2007-11-16 10:15 am
Italy is a "little" country and women sometime are really bitches...
As you know (due to all the post that redirect to it) I'm also a blogger of Isn't it Romantic. I'm not the owner neither one of the founder, but I use to post here about matters that can be interesting for Italian romance readers.
In Italy romance blogs are not so common, and I can proudly said that maybe our blog is the most visited. And we post a lot about books, but also other arguments like poems, love songs, movies.
Maybe one year ago we have created a special post, The book on trial. I don't know if outside Italy it was an original post, but in Italy was the first time that a blog did it. We have chosen a classical romance book, The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, and we have put the book on trial. I was the Defence Attorney and another blogger was the Public Prosecutor. And through the comments the readers were the Jury. Sincerely I didn't like it very much, cause it was a way for people to quarrel on a book!!! (a thing I find incredible, it's not possible to quarrel on a book when there are so other big problem in the world, and then I don't like to quarrel, I prefer to have my opinion, strong opinion, but I don't want to oblige someone else to think like me)
Now another blog has taken the idea and put under trial another book. Unfortunately it has chosen to use a way very similar to us (without asking or give us credit) and this has stirred up the anger of the owner and founder of Isn't it Romantic, who, without asking to any one of the other bloggers, has written a post to accuse the other blog of plagiarism. You can imagine what this has caused: angry comments, the other blog has reacted with similar nastiness, in a Italian yahoo group where all we write, people are commenting on it... And now, some friends of mine, write to me privately to know what I think and what I will do. A person who has interviewed an author more or less in the same period as me, has written to me to be sure that I will not accuse her of plagiarism!!!
And here I am, and try to ignore that post. For me, I think that internet is so wide that it's impossible to accuse someone of plagiarism, and even if the other blog has done it, well they have done it ONE YEAR after than our blog...
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