China Daily steals from Lonely Planet

The China Daily has a page its ‘Language Tips’ section about Brisbane Australia. At the bottom of the page is a notice declaring:

Copyright by chinadaily.com.cn. All rights reserved. None of this material may be used for any commercial or public use. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.

This might interest the owners of Lonely Planet, from whose website the whole China Daily article is taken, almost word for word. The China Daily page is here. Most of the text comes from this Lonely Planet page, but there’s also some from here.

– Thanks to Roddy for the tip. Check out his superbly named blog Dreams of White Tiles here, and also the group blog he hosts for foreigners writing in Chinese called chu yu bu su which is here.

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