DECEPTION CASE #03: @jhellenmjgr Photo Plagiarism on Steemit

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Today we have quite different and more unusual case involving not only clear plagiarism but also major disrespect to whole WOX community

The story is about @jhellenmjgr, who actually earned quite a trust while participating in my contests and receiving various prizes all way long, though with more like average amateur photography entries not allowing to hit for the first places. And as not the first time it happens in my contests, suddenly the quality of the entries started to rise

At this point have to make clear few basic rules for steemit in general and for my contests in particular

• in case if you do use not own photography for steemit posts, you must to clearly indicate the source
• if you re-work somebody's photography or art, above rule to apply as well and basically in that case you need to have permit from original author to do so (but that's more complicated case still)
• rule No.4 of my contests clearly states: "Entries must be original work - NO PLAGIARISM". Means You can not use not own photography/artwork. Do not mislead on that

So let's go the the main case

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Just to mention again due pretty heavy participation in my daily contests I'm too much overloaded for searching for image matches over the internet. There is a part of users who earned reputation and are whitelisted in WOX and those are not being checked (normally).
Thanks to @grecoloco for commenting under the contest post where @jhellenmjgr took the first prize (my fault, but s**t happens)

https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@axeman/the-world-of-xpilar-cityscape-photography-and-art-contest-week-080-20steem-14sbi-in-prizes-submissions-post

I'm not the person who starts to attack quickly. And even if plagiarism case is found and not a heavy abuse, we, Moderators of WOX, normally giving a second chance still. Maybe person was not really aware about some rules and finally the one could really regret about what was done.

Following comment was left under the initial post of @jhellenmjgr kindly asking to explain the situation

https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@jhellenmjgr/the-world-of-xpilar-cityscape-photography-and-art-contest-week-079-20steem-14sbi-in-prizes-submissions-post-by-jhellenmjgr

And here the replies we have got after couple of days

Unfortunately haven't took the screenshot of the initial post before the wording was changed, but that doesn't matter really.

So what do we have. As for the first comment it shows clear mislead about my contest rules, which are written pretty straight and clear (I guess). You can participate only with your own original photography/art and IT IS "a best photographer contest" on basis of "best" photo/art entry

And second reply is what all this story is about. Instead of apologizing for the mistake done (and returning prizes paid, maybe, as we had few cases before), we got here another bunch of explanations and lies.
Basically stating that @jhellenmjgr is a best friend of Pieter Raijkai, world top and well known photographer and even DIRECTED his shot from the drone! Why not? Magic happens in this world, but I did my homework

Luckily I'm quite a top worldwide photographer too and my colleagues do respond on my requests. So here is response from Pieter on Instagram

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Guess no more comments needed, but still

1. Statement to be a friend with Pieter Rajkal = FALSE
2. Statement of directing his drone shot = FALSE
3. Statement of obtaining this picture for final edit = FALSE

Actually exactly same picture was entered to contest as on Pieter's Instagram.

100% stolen, 100% plagiarism

And the Cherry on the top of the Cake. One more clear match found from earlier posts. And now I have a screenshot before text could be changed....

https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@jhellenmjgr/the-world-of-xpilar-cityscape-photography-and-art-contest-week-078-20steem-14sbi-in-prizes-submissions-post-by-jhellenmjgr

Description states: This is one of my pictures from my travel to Barranquilla, Colombia back in 2011 and edited in photoshop.

Original author: František Lukas https://www.flickr.com/photos/130671933@N04/26264179021/in/album-72157656688069879/

Original photo was cropped and added HDR effect. It even was boomed by WOX Moderators and got another good upvote

Well, most SAD thing is an attitude trying to fool me, moderators and whole WOX community.

Result - BAN from my contests and general BAN from World of Xpilar

@steemcurator01
@endingplagiarism