Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Plagiarism by Best-selling Author

The man who wrote the best-selling series Conversations with God admits he borrowed someone else’s anecdote and presented it as his own. Neale Donald Walsch says he didn’t do it on purpose. Nevertheless, Beliefnet.com has taken down his blog on spirituality because he “failed to properly credit and attribute material from another author”. Here's the website's full statement.

Walsch told the story of his son playing in a Christmas concert where kids held up letters that spelled out Christmas Love. But one child held his m upside down changing the cards to read: Christwas Love. But this was Candy Chand’s story. She found the Walsch version through a search engine.

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