Harry Page is not a plagiarist
In late 2007, I wrote a post about an incident of plagiarism at the San Antonio Express-News. I quoted from an article by the paper’s public editor that reported “… veteran E-N sports staffer Harry Page was terminated last week for lifting information — which he presented in his bowling blog as his own — from two websites: www.bowl.com, the Web site of the U.S. Bowling Congress, and www.pbatour.com, the Professional Bowlers Association Tour Web site.”
Not long after my post went live, people started posting comments, saying that Page had been wrongfully accused and terminated. (These comments were lost after I changed my comments system on the site; I only realized this while writing this post.) The commenters noted that the allegedly offending blog posts in fact included attribution to the two websites in question.
Page eventually filed suit against the paper for defamation of character. The good news: Earlier this month, he reached a settlement with the paper and its owner that makes it clear he is not a plagiarist. I’ve updated my previous post to reflect this and congratulate Page on clearing his name. From a San Antonio Informer article about the suit:
Page, represented by attorney Darryl K. Carter of the Houston-based Glickman, Carter & Bachynsky, L.L.P., law firm, sued the newspaper believing that the Express-News invented the false plagiarism charges after he refused to participate in a “voluntary separation program” in October 2007.
The settlement came in District Court of Bexar County Texas, 224th Judicial District, case no. 2008-CI-07082, after the Hearst Corp. was denied a summary judgment to get the suit dismissed in December 2009.
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