[Commons-Law] Fw: Mashelkar - Times of India article
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>
> Some of you will have read a report in today's Times of India in which the
> plagiarism of my work by Shahid Alikhan and R Mashelkar in their 2004 book
was
> exposed. I don't really want to add too much to the story. People can of
course
> check for themselves and are free to judge the situation as they see fit.
There
> is a view common among people who think they are very important that
others
> should be grateful to be cited at all. And it is true that a book I wrote
with
> the late Darrell Posey, which reproduces similar text to the plagiarised
> article, is cited elsewhere in their book. So Alikhan and Mashelkar may
use
> that to make some kind of a bogus case that I have been given "due
credit". I
> am hoping nobody is going to swallow that. They did indeed cite that book
a few
> pages earlier, but it was from a completely different part of the book and
on
> another issue entirely, and a very specific one. In case you are
interested it
> concerned a plant collection expedition in Samoa. If you read the Times of
> India article you will know that is a completely different topic from that
of
> the text plagiarised, which elaborated on a concept called traditional
resource
> rights, coined by Posey. Incidentally, Darrell Posey got insufficient
credit for
> his lifetime achievements that included his heroic defence of the rights
of
> indigenous peoples and his determined efforts to help turn traditional
> knowledge protection into the mainstream issue it is today.
>
> Graham Dutfield
> Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow
> Queen Mary, University of London
>
> www.ccls.edu
>
From:
To:
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:54 PM
Subject: Mashelkar - Times of India article
>
> Some of you will have read a report in today's Times of India in which the
> plagiarism of my work by Shahid Alikhan and R Mashelkar in their 2004 book
was
> exposed. I don't really want to add too much to the story. People can of
course
> check for themselves and are free to judge the situation as they see fit.
There
> is a view common among people who think they are very important that
others
> should be grateful to be cited at all. And it is true that a book I wrote
with
> the late Darrell Posey, which reproduces similar text to the plagiarised
> article, is cited elsewhere in their book. So Alikhan and Mashelkar may
use
> that to make some kind of a bogus case that I have been given "due
credit". I
> am hoping nobody is going to swallow that. They did indeed cite that book
a few
> pages earlier, but it was from a completely different part of the book and
on
> another issue entirely, and a very specific one. In case you are
interested it
> concerned a plant collection expedition in Samoa. If you read the Times of
> India article you will know that is a completely different topic from that
of
> the text plagiarised, which elaborated on a concept called traditional
resource
> rights, coined by Posey. Incidentally, Darrell Posey got insufficient
credit for
> his lifetime achievements that included his heroic defence of the rights
of
> indigenous peoples and his determined efforts to help turn traditional
> knowledge protection into the mainstream issue it is today.
>
> Graham Dutfield
> Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow
> Queen Mary, University of London
>
> www.ccls.edu
>
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