The Case Of Seeking Consent, Acknowledging Receipt Of Funds, Etc.

We refer to the previous post:�http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/17/a-case-of-using-an-rip-cat-to-solicit-donations/�and wish to add the following:

Using photos, write-ups and materials from our blog without consent

Previously, we’ve had a case of an organisation copying our brochure, translating it into Chinese and publishing it in a Chinese newspapers as their own material, without giving credit to us, the original source. This said organisation also did not seek our consent.

Lately, one of our readers sent us a link to pages from my book being published on a certain social media. Again, no permission had been sought and there is no credit given to the author as well. We understand that the person probably meant well and we wrote in asking that our link be published so that people who see the pages can go to the original source for the whole book, but there was no response from the person at all. We left the matter as it is.

In publishing content from our sources and since we have copyright on our blog as well as all my books, here are some ways:

1. Publish the link. For eg:�http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/17/willy-the-still-water-and-street-fighter/. This way, it goes back to the original source.

2. If you uplift photos from our blog, please write in to ask for consent and when you publish, please credit it to the link you took the photos from or our website: www.myanimalcare.org.

3. If you wish to publish pages from my books, please write in to ask for consent and similarly, when you publish, please credit the author or our website. There is a disclaimer on all my books that say this:

Provided it is done without any changes to the text and illustrations, this book may be translated, reproduced or reprinted in whole or in part with permission from the author:�chankahyein@gmail.com

The reason for the above is (a) courtesy (b) prevention of plagiarism, a malady of modern society.

You won’t believe what happened to me once. Someone had asked for my powerpoint slides, which I provided. He then tweaked it a little and put his name as author and used it for a fee-paying training session (he is a corporate trainer). When I next presented that same talk, a lady in the audience came up to me and asked if I had plagiarised so-and-so’s work as she had already seen the same slides in a certain training. I told her those were my own slides and asked for the name of the trainer. I then contacted that trainer and he attested to the fact that he had tweaked my materials and put his name as the author. The sad thing is that, even as a corporate trainer, he didn’t know that plagiarism is wrong. He thought materials should be “shared”. Well, maybe so, but share with proper courtesy, please. Sigh…don’t they teach this in school anymore?

Having said all that, at the very least, even if we fail to seek permission from the author or original source, is it SO terribly hard to just quote the original source?

Not acknowledging receipt of funds

For those of you who have applied for and received our funds, you would know our procedure. When we make any payment, we will send you an email with the online bank-in transaction receipt and we will always request that you acknowledge receipt within 1 week from our email. The reasons for this are: (a) so that we know you have received the subsidy (b) so that we can close that particular case and write up the report.

However, there are cases where recipients simply refuse to acknowledge receipt so the case is left hanging until the next time the same applicant applies. Then, we ask why there was no acknowledgement of the monies received earlier and you won’t believe this, but once, I received this answer: “For a small amount like that, you want me to acknowledge?? You think I have time to do that??”

So, do you think we barred her?

Actually no, we did not bar her and she has continued asking for help.

So for those people who think we are SO strict and it is SO difficult to get our funds, please think again.�There are recipients of our funds who badmouth us behind our backs. There are also those who apply for our funds year after year but donate to other animal organisations, and not to us. They seem to think our money comes very easily just because we are never in debt. Actually, our money does NOT come easily. The reason for being never in debt is that we manage within our means.�Rudeness, lack of courtesy and ingratitude are, sadly, not uncommon in today’s modern society, so we close an eye on these…for the sake of the animals.

The only thing we do not tolerate is dishonesty. We will blacklist double-, triple- or multiple-claimants as well as those who have been dishonest in other ways.

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/17/the-case-of-seeking-consent-acknowledging-receipt-of-funds-etc/

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