Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Delhi
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How we love to see a rainbow
Telling us the storm is through
Made when sunlight shines on raindrops,
Here's a rainbow just for you!
Red ..the top, the highest colour,
Orange….we'll find it just below
Yellow… follows, bright and sunny
Green… the middle one, we know
Blue comes next, like sky in summer;
Indigo is purple - blue;
Violet, the bottom colour;
There's a rainbow just for you!
Hello --
I wrote to you more than six months ago, and I have still not received a
reply.
This is in regard to the poem on your web site at the following location:
http://www.dimdima.com/schools/showschools.asp?q_id=133&q_name=Bhavan's+A.+H
.+Wadia+High+School&q_category=Poems
Here is how it is displayed:
By - Hardik Bhatt
How we love to see a rainbow
Telling us the storm is through
Made when sunlight shines on raindrops,
Here's a rainbow just for you!
Red ..the top, the highest colour,
OrangeS.we'll find it just below
YellowS follows, bright and sunny
GreenS the middle one, we know
Blue comes next, like sky in summer;
Indigo is purple - blue;
Violet, the bottom colour;
There's a rainbow just for you!
The problem is that Hardik Bhatt did not write this poem. I did, and I own
the copyright to it. I have not given Hardik Bhatt permission to use it, nor
have I given permission to you to display it on your site. On your "terms of
use" page, you state that errors brought to your notice will be corrected.
Why, then, is my poem still on your site under Hardik Bhatt's name, six
months after I wrote to you about it?
On your website, you also give very precise information about YOUR
copyrights. If you want people to honor your copyrights--and of course you
do--shouldn't you also honor the copyrights of others? By continuing to keep
my poem on your website even after I wrote to you about it, you are implying
that you own the copyright to it. You do not. This is a legal matter.
If you need verification, please supply a FAX number. I will be happy to FAX
to you a copy of the page in the 1994 publication "Sense-able Science" (AIMS
Education Foundation) in which my poem first appeared.
My poem needs to be removed from your website immediately.
I certainly hope that the authorities at Hardik Bhatt's high school will
deal with this student who has been allowed to take credit for someone
else's work. If the situation were reversed, and one of my students had
passed off someone else's work as his or her own, there would be
consequences including a letter of apology to the owner of the work. It
would certainly be appropriate for Hardik Bhatt to take responsibility in
this matter.
Once again, please remove my poem from your website immediately.
Thank you for dealing with this problem. I would appreciate the courtesy of
a timely reply.
Suzy Gazlay
Singing Songs of Science
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