[INDOLOGY] pirated essay

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear Rosane, how painful.   I've had similar experiences.

One can write to the culprits, send solicitors' "cease and desist" letters,
etc.  But that may not help much, and is troublesome.

Maybe the most elegant way forward is to get an account at
http://academia.edu, and put your own copy of your paper there, with
suitable framing comments at the top.  You can also mention the pirated
copy, together with any disparaging comments you wish to make.  Anybody
searching for the topic by keyword will find your copy first, probably,
since academia.edu is pretty famous.  But at the least they would find
both, and your attached comments would be visible.

See my "Sanskrit Manuscript Collections outside
India<https://univie.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk/Papers>"
paper at Academia.edu for an example of how I dealt with this issue.

Quite a lot of us are putting our non-copyright papers up on Academia.edu
these days.  It's becoming a valuable discovery tool for new research
publications in one's chosen fields of interest.  I recommend it.

Best,
Dominik


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On 11 December 2013 15:50, Rosane Rocher <rrocher at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
> With thanks to Herman Tull, I just found out that an essay of mine was
> reprinted without my knowledge or mention of the source from which it was
> taken, and, worst of all, with misrepresenting changes.
>
> My original essay "Sanskrit and Related Studies in the United States:
> 1960–1985" was written for, and published in the proceedings of, *Indological
> Studies & South Asia Bibliography - a Conference*, convened in Calcutta
> at the National Library of India by its then director, the late great
> historian Ashin Dasgupta, in which I participated in 1986 (pp. 61–92).  A
> pirated reprint has since appeared in the volume *Sanskrit Studies
> outside India (On the occasion of 10th World Sanskrit Conference,
> Bangalore, Jan 3–9, 1997 *[which I did not attend]*), *New Delhi:
> Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 1997, edited by the Sansthan's then director,
> Dr. K.K. Mishra, under the truncated title "Sanskrit Studies in United
> States" (pp. 97–152).  I do mind the deletion of "and Related Studies,"
> since it was the very point of my essay to assess the state of Sanskrit
> studies contextually, particularly in connection with area studies,
> religious studies, and Indo-European linguistics.  Yet worse is the
> deletion of the period "1960–1985" and passing off the essay as if it was
> still current 11 years later.  I notice that essays about Sanskrit Studies
> in other parts of the world included in the Sansthan's volume were current,
> mentioning dates up to 1996.
>
> Since then, an online version of the Sansthan's volume has appeared, which
> omits the two appendices in my essay (pp. 128–152, equivalent to pp. 77–91
> of my original essay).  As a consolation, perhaps, the online version
> mercifully also omits the list of contributors to the Sansthan's volume
> (pp. 153–154), in which the 5 half-line entry that concerns me manages to
> feature 4 mistakes: misspelling my name "Roscher," misnaming my department
> "South Asian languages," mauling the name of my university as "University
> of Peninsula," and then again the State in which I reside as "Peninsula."
> This performance brings back to my mind the French phrase with which one of
> my high school teachers greeted anything stupid one of us students had
> done: "Dépêchons-nous d'en rire, de peur d'en pleurer" ("Let's hasten to
> laugh at this, lest it bring us to tears").
>
> I earnestly request scholars who might be interested in this topic to bear
> in mind the purpose and date of my essay and, if any might wish to quote
> it, to do so with its full, original title, including the period covered.
>
> With thanks and best wishes,
>
> Rosane Rocher
> Professor Emerita of South Asia Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> USA
>
>
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