Last week I posted an interesting article I saw on Alan Gardyne’s Associate Programs blog. The article was about how to make $1,000 Online. This was actually a pretty cool article, that I thought my readers would be interested in, and enjoy reading. The author of the post is Gardyne’s partner Jay Stockwell. Now I clearly stated who the author was, and where the article came from, along with some nice “Link Love” back to Gardyne’s site. I didn’t place it at the end of the article, which is the traditional way of doing it, I put it right up front.

Here is the 1st line from the post:

Yes you can Make Money Online! This is the 1st in a 8-Part Series of Articles from Jay Stockwell. Jay is a contributing author to Allan Gardyne’s Associate Programs blog.

Now I was not surprised to hear from Allen. Most marketers have “Google Alerts” and keep an eye on what is being said about them online. I figured Allen would get notified of my post, and send me a nice comment, or thank me for the Free Plug.

I post articles from time to time from other Bloggers or other Article Directories, just as many of my 1,000’s of articles out there are picked by other webmasters and posted on their sites. This is just Old School “Article Marketing”.

Anyway, I was loging in today to make a post to the blog and found this comment from Allan. At first I thought it might be a joke, but after checking the logs it looks like it actually did come from him.

So you can imagine my surprise when when I saw this comment from Gardyne:

Allan Gardyne
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com | al@AssociatePrograms.com | 121.45.247.197

Hi Steve, I’m glad you liked Jay’s article, but publishing it on your blog without first asking for permission is blatant plagiarism. Providing a link to AssociatePrograms.com where the article was originally published does not change that. Please remove it immediately.

- 2008/07/01 at 12:11 AM

Wow, That’s Cold. Gee whiz, sorry Allan, I didn’t know I had to ask permission to publish an article. I thought that’s why people published articles, to have them picked up by other webmasters, and Go Viral!

Blatant Plagiarism, that’s a pretty Hard Core accusation!

Plagiarism is: Using another person’s ideas or creative work without giving credit to that person. The act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one’s own creation.

This is clearly what I DID NOT do. Oh well Gardyne must be having a bad day. I will know better than to publish any of his articles without asking permission first. (Actually it was Jay Stockwell’s article.)

Now I first met Gardyne back in 1998, when I sent him an email and asked him if he would list my Affiliate Program on his site. He declined and said no because it paid on multiple levels, and he did not recommend those Multi-Level type programs.

Is it just me personally, or would he would have complained is some of the other Internet Marketing Bloggers would have published it like ShoeMoney (Jeremy Schoemaker), John Chow, or his fellow bloggers from Down Under Yaro Starak (Entrepreneurs-Journey) and Darren Rowes (ProBlogger).

Oh well. no worries Mate, I took the article down at your request. Sorry if it offended you to have my 1,000’s of readers see Jay’s article and possibly click through to your site.

“Go Figure” - Oh well, just another exciting day in the Internet Marketing World.

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