Have Rangers given the ET permission to publish articles from the Rangers website?

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Article submitted by Scorchio:

 

http://www.gersnet.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/255-have-rangers-given-the-evening-times-permission-to-publish-verbatim-copies-of-articles-from-the-rangers-website

 

Have Rangers given the Evening Times permission to publish verbatim copies of articles from the Rangers website?

 

As far as I know our Club have had previous problems with certain people (particularly in the Scottish 'mainstream media') taking liberties by using the work of our Club's media department writers.

 

This is why at the bottom of the news articles on the official Rangers website they introduced a copyright notice which reads:

 

" Copyright 2014. Permission to use quotations from this article online is only granted subject to appropriate source credit and hyperlink to www.rangers.co.uk

 

It was therefore with a degree of surprise that after reading Andrew Dickson's Rangers match report on the Rangers website of the Brora Rangers 1-1 Rangers game up in sunny Sutherland this afternoon, that I popped onto NewsNow/Rangers (as you do!) and happened to open up the match report published by the Evening Times titled "Boyd rescues Rangers in Brora friendly".

 

The reason it's of interest and worth mentioning is that not only did the match report from the Evening Times appear to be a word-for-word (aka verbatim) copy of Andrew Dickson's whole match report, including it's mistakes/typos, but it didn't have any Evening Times author credit and perhaps more importantly, had no source credit or hyperlink as per the Rangers copyright notice.

 

So the question I'm throwing out there is this:

 

Have Rangers given the Evening Times explicit permission to copy & paste articles from the Rangers website, then change the article title and publish the article on the Evening Times website as if it was actually an Evening Times article?

 

If the answer is 'no' and Rangers haven't granted permission for this, then the only logical conclusion we can draw from this is that someone at the Evening Times is not only taking liberties, but perhaps even breaching copyright laws.

 

Below you'll find a screenshot of the original Rangers article and another of the one published by the Evening Times.

 

 

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The Evening Times have chopped the article on their website down to a much more minimal two sentences, so it would look as though they didn't have permission from Rangers to copy and paste the whole thing....

[the gunslinger 3,366]

They used to print huge swathes of the Rangers news with permission.

[forlanssister 3,050]

Andrew Dickson

‏@rfc_dickson

Could someone at @TheEveningTimes explain why they copied and pasted my match report from today's game on to their website please?

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Andrew Dickson

‏@rfc_dickson

Could someone at @TheEveningTimes explain why they copied and pasted my match report from today's game on to their website please?

 

Here's the tweets that followed that one....

 

Andrew Dickson @rfc_dickson · 21m

And when I say they copied and pasted it, I mean the whole thing. All 700-800 words of it, word for word. An embarrassment @TheEveningTimes

 

Andrew Dickson @rfc_dickson · 20m

They have previous for the same sort of thing but this is a new low. Completely unprofessional in the extreme @TheEveningTimes

 

Andrew Dickson @rfc_dickson · 19m

Have a look for yourself @TheEveningTimes and feel free to offer an explanation. Disgraceful conduct. http://www.gersnet.co.uk/index.php/late…

[rbr 1,247]

This was a fuck up by the Times , which they have fully accepted , calls will be made today apologising . Basically they are so short staffed that it wasn't spotted , it wasn't intentional

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This was a fuck up by the Times , which they have fully accepted , calls will be made today apologising . Basically they are so short staffed that it wasn't spotted , it wasn't intentional

 

Worth it to see Uri getting all indignant.

 

He should have been flattered that anyone found his work worthy of such plagiarism!

[the gunslinger 3,366]

This was a fuck up by the Times , which they have fully accepted , calls will be made today apologising . Basically they are so short staffed that it wasn't spotted , it wasn't intentional

 

Someone copied and pasted and published it by accident?

[rbr 1,247]

No the mistake was in not crediting Rangers

[compo 6,210]

does anybody ever buy the evening times????