I had sent an original article in answer to an ad for writers to [email protected] on October 29, for an allegedly new Web site called www.cool-info.org to be launched in six weeks. I never got a response or acknowledgment of receipt. Then on November 9, someone named Linda Hayes published my article, word-for-word, on www.associatedcontent.com (and a Google search also shows it as appearing on pages for www.topix.com), using her name as the author of the article. As of the date of this report (December 28), there is no www.cool-info.org Web site in existence. Although www.associatedcontent.com has inactivated Linda Hayes as a contributor and no longer makes the article available in active content, it still shows up on a cached page. I have since contacted [email protected] and the Web sites for Associated Content and Topix, but no one has responded yet about this clear case of plagiarism.
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