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What to do when someone rips off your blog posts?? (10 posts)

Topic tags: copyright, reblog

Cas McCullough said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
Just wondering what you do when someone reblogs your content without asking you for permission or giving you credit. This hasn’t happened to me before (that I know about) and I’m wondering how common this is and what you can do about it. I’ve sent them an email requesting they take the blog post down but is there any way to enforce it?
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Tamal Anwar said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
Hi Cas, this is a common issue in the blogging world. You write a content and sometime late you see the same content popping up in another site. These sites are called scrapper sites or just fan sites trying to figure out blogging.
In my case I have seen many sites who has copied exactly what I have wrote, in the same order and with the same link and image structure. At past I was getting angry at this but now I see this as natural.
To get benefited from these sites, use internal linking around your post so that they will copy the links and make a link back to your site automatically.
There is RSS footer plugin, put a link to your site so when they/some bot copy from your blog feed, you get a link.
Tynt.com is a free site that will make your site somewhat copy-proof. When people copy any part of your text and paste it, it will show a link for the source.
Some plugins in wordpress makes people not to copy your text.
DMCA.org has a badge that you can put on your site and if you see a site is copying your material and you want to take it down, then you can use 1 free takedown per year from them.
I hope this helps.xTamal
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Shari Stauch said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
That’s just plain RUDE! Re-blogging can be an advantageous tool to both parties if done mutually… Perhaps whoever did this to you was just a newbie? Have you reached out to them to explain that you’d be amenable (or not) to having your blog reblogged if they first let you know and also include an “About the Author” so you get full credit and the inbound link back to your site? Without adhering to your wishes on this, they really must take it down…
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Jules Webb said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
@casmccullough @xtamal @sharijstauch
CopyScape is a free online tool that lets you search for copies of your page on the web.
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Cas McCullough said
11 months, 3 weeks ago:
@xtamal That’s good to know. There are internal links in the post going back to my site, which is how I found out about it (through a pingback), so at least if they don’t take it down, I will have links back to my site (unless they cotton on and remove them). They changed a few words here and there (including the title of my Ebook WT?). I really wouldn’t have minded if they’d just asked me nicely and put my name to it.
@sharijstauch I don’t mind so long as they a. give credit and b. ask me first. I like the idea of reblogging so long as there are links back to my site and I’m credited for my words.
@juleswebb Yes, I’ve used copyscape before to look for copycat sites. Am so hanging out for my trademark to come through. Just a few more months, all being well.
My brother (who is also an entrepreneur) mentioned to me about stating people can reblog under a creative commons license. I’ve heard of this for images but not for blogs. Has anyone done that?
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Judith Gotwald said
11 months, 1 week ago:
I brag a bit—on my site!
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Eddy Sleiman said
11 months, 1 week ago:
You can’t expect a lot from people who doesn’t have ethical values. These people will remain copiers in everything in life and will never be innovators or truly successful in whatever they are going to do.
There is a reason why there is 2 quotes in french “Savoir Vivre” & “Savoir Faire”
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Leona Martin said
11 months, 1 week ago:
@xtamal Tamal – thanks for the information you provided here
@juleswebb I’ve never tried CopyScape – thanks – will have to check them out.
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Mac said
11 months, 1 week ago:
Link back to the original post though a comment
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Don Sturgill said
11 months ago:
@ Cas …. you can follow-up by sending a copy of your request you sent to the copyright violator to their hosting company (be sure to copy the blogger on that as well).
You determine the rights you keep and the rights you give up. You can deem your work Creative Commons, but no one else can do that for you. As the author, you hold copyright as soon as you publish the work.
You can work through their host to stop the infringement. You can also take legal action.
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