CtNewsJunkie.com reports that Journal Inquirer of Manchester moved its plagiarism lawsuit against the Hartford Courant from state to federal court after The Courant sought to dismiss the suit in Superior Court on the grounds that it did not have jurisdiction on copyright issues.
The story by Christine Stuart said The Courant had no comment.
“The Journal Inquirer’s lawsuit alleges that the Hartford Courant used its competitor’s work to make up for the work formerly done by the Courant’s own reporting staff, which has been cut in half over the past two years. The Courant is accused of taking articles written by Journal Inquirer reporters and misattributing it as its own work.
Click here to read the federal lawsuit filed on Feb. 9 and here for more background on the court battle between the two newspapers,” her story states.
George,
The last two grafs of your by-lined piece are copied word-for-word from CT News Junkie. I know you give them credit earlier in your story, but if you want to copy their language, you should put these grafs in quotation marks and attribute the source — especially given the subject matter.
Roger
good point
will do
done, and thanks Roger for caring enough to give me a chance to correct it.
George
The CTnewsjunkie story uses the term venue to describe the move to federal court. As a general term that is ok, almost, but to be precise and consonant with the legal wording, is not a venue issue, it is a jurisdiction issue.