Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Whose picture is it anyway?


Newest cub at the NLU stable the National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), Ranchi has quite an interesting website. Just below the masthead it carries a series of changing images. The following are the images used in the flash sequence (though not in this layout).

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While the first two are stock photos used in several law related website the last three photos in the series caught my attention. A bit of trawling around the net and it seems that the photos were borrowed from different websites around the world. 
The snapshot of the library (which with its furniture and copiers seems quite impressive) is ‘borrowed’ from the website of Law Library of Wichita County, Texas. Further the next picture of students in post convocation celebration is most certainly of NUJS, as evidenced from the distinctive arch entranceway. Further as NUSRL is yet to have a graduating batch it is improbable to have a convocation ceremony. 

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The borrowing of ‘inspiration’ does not stop the last picture is taken from the flickr page of a student of Griffith University, Australia. 

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While many may argue that being a toddler law school NUSRL website carries these pictures as inspirational or aspirational however that cannot condone the use of popup which marks the images as ‘NUSRL Ranchi’.
As per news from media NUSRL is ‘facing the problem of inadequate infrastructures at its temporary campus near BIT-Mesra.’
PS: The title of the post is inspired from the title of the comedy TV show ‘Whose line is it anyway?