Cut and paste

We received an email from the UK asking for more information about the Chiaretto wine festival in Bardolino. 

Our page on the Bardolino Wine Route in Veneto contains a link to the wine consortium which organises and promotes such events.

A quick search of the web also revealed a couple of sites with a full and identical page description of the event. One was a site dedicated to events and one a cooking blog from a lady in Bardolino.

The former declare their source of their information as www.bresciaatavola.it, which is not even in Veneto.

Brescia Tavola say that their reference is www.sottocoperta.net who clearly and rightly say that it is forbidden to reproduce any content from their site.

This is a bit rich, however, as www.sottocoperta.net is simply a compilation of notices from other websites to mask an affiliate loaded interface of earn per click.

If our logic is correct www.sottocoperta.net must have lifted the content word for word from someone else, no doubt with permission of the originator. 

It seems the original source of the information was still the Consorzio Tutela Vino Bardolino.

As the website first in Google's search results is that of the Consorzio, we rest our case.