The Barter Independent, one of the blogs ran by Eric Woods, has plagiarised another article from another barter professional, this time with a new twist which I call covering-your-a#$. Instead of publishing the article as Eric or admin as in the past, Eric is now allegedly creating fictitious contributors to the Barter Independent and publishing the articles under the guise of these fictitious contributors. Today’s article came from Jack Schacht of National Trade Association. If you open the two links below in two different windows, you’ll find that the article from Jack and the article on Barter Independent are 99% identical.
http://www.sideroad.com/Bartering/bartering.html
Jack Schacht’s profile on Sideroad.com, where the article resides, explicitly states, “For permission to reprint articles, please contact Jack Schacht directly. If no email address is listed, visit the website listed above.”
If the Barter Independent has received this permission, it has not announced it.
