A thought just occurred to me and I got bitten by the curiosity bug ;-)
With no offence towards anyone, I would like answers for few questions that I am posing :

1) Do you write a review on a book without mentioning the story, excerpts or characters in the story from the book itself?
2) Do you write a review on a movie without mentioning the story, excerpts/scenes or characters in the story from the movie itself?
3) Do you write a review on a music album without hearing the songs in the album or write lyrics of the tracks in the album without copying it from somewhere?
4) Do you write a review on a product without taking it’s features from it’s manual, website or from the product itself?

There are many questions and I won’t bore you with them. I just want to bring it to notice of others that when you write a review on something, some info has to be sourced from somewhere. It is not copy paste when you write the info in your own words. Copy paste means copying it exactly as it is. There is some info that you may already know and it is available on many sites..

For eg, If I write about Mumbai, naturally the same info is available on net too and I too know most of that info as I have lived most of my life in this city.

We all have to do some research or have some source of info to write any article and it doesn’t mean that one has copied unless it is copy pasted.

What is your take on this?