Comments on: How to Defend your Blogs Copyright

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:23:57 +0000

Is it all right if we use your letter outlines in a letter to a scraper? Thanks for the great post!

By: Suhasini

Suhasini — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:40:21 +0000

Being a newbie to blogging I found this article more useful to ensure that our content shouldn’t be a lost art in hands of plagiarists.

I totally agree with the author that people should be careful before starting their blog and should be aware of copyright laws and act accordingly.

It’s always painful to know that our content is being stolen by some body else. It’s worse than burglary.

It’s also wise to cross refer sites like http://www.copyrightsearch.org to ensure that even by mistake we are not using other’s content, especially in the field of arts,music,videos …

By: PeterS

PeterS — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:14:36 +0000

This is a great post. As a photographer I tend to worry about copyright infringement when it comes to work on my website. Your advice is sound. Thank you.

By: Berkay Dinçer

Berkay Dinçer — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:09:14 +0000

If the website which steals your content uses Adsense, you can directly report this to Google Adsense. They will contact the webmaster and oblige him/her remove your content from the website.

Google Adsense accepts only postal mails about copyright infrigments.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:26:29 +0000

This is a tremendously helpful post. One interesting result for me the other day was when a scraper had ignored my polite emails until I posted his full address on Twitter: within 30 minutes I had an email saying the posts had been removed. I can only assume he was following me on Twitter!

By: Blackberry Phones

Blackberry Phones — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:18:39 +0000

The plugin called RSS Signature is a great way to tag your posts in emails and readers with copyright protection.

By: Mary Toso

Mary Toso — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:32:43 +0000

Hi,

I appreciate what you have shared. If I understand this correctly then if I have an idea that could eventually involve a business selling products, I could just share it and send a copy of the idea in and it’s mine? In the mean time I could begin to blog and discuss it with protection?

How can I find out if someone else is already doing it without being vulnerable to share it and have it stolen in searching that out?

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:03:48 +0000

That was a nice one, Thank you for sharing this very interesting article, on how to deal with the infringer. I was wondering how to go about it as well.

By: Ricky C

Ricky C — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:38:37 +0000

Plagiarism is sad, I have noticed that one of my blog post was being copied into someone else blog, but i didn’t do anything to stop him, because he stole my blog post which contain a lot of link and i did gives the link back and credit to original author but sadly he (the stealer) didn’t link back or even giving the credit to that site. Sad….

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:27:53 +0000

Fantastic article Darren.

I will definitely be bookmarking this for future reference!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:35:17 +0000

Knowing about copyright is every blogger’s responsible. After all no one likes to being copied by someone else without having credit in any way. Copyscape is doing a great job as it works like 99.9% accurate.

By: Chris Collins

Chris Collins — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:49:56 +0000

Amazing two part article! So incredibly helpful! I wish I had read this a long time ago. Thank you!

By: The Cranky Product Manager

The Cranky Product Manager — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:20:25 +0000

Content theft is a big problem for the Cranky Product Manager, and she thanks you from the bottom of her heart for your two WICKED AWESOME posts. Seriously, they are the two most useful blog posts about blogging she’s ever read.

All hail Gary!

By: Rich Pearson

Rich Pearson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:32:09 +0000

Great stuff Gary. Hadley – copyscape is a good tool. You can also try out FairShare (fairshare.cc) which automatically displays anyone reusing your work in an RSS feed.

I’m biased b/c I work for FairShare, but you can also tag your feed with a Creative Commons license which makes the results more relevant to how you want to share your work.

By: Hadley Stern

Hadley Stern — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:57:14 +0000

Do you use a service like Copyscape to automatically search for copied posts? How do you find the content?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:53:10 +0000

Thanks for the great information here. It’s great to know that as bloggers we have some defense for our content.

By: Michael Henry

Michael Henry — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:42:59 +0000

You have to make sure you have the proper copyright statement or terms of use policy otherwise you could get the a reponse back claiming “fair use” for reporting/review purposes.

By: JP Holecka

JP Holecka — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:10:13 +0000

Great advice,
I will pass this along to a couple of friends of mine that have had their work lifted.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:47:53 +0000

Thanks for a great post. I am a fervent advocate of maintaining copyright. My writing and photographs are my property. There are prominent copyright notices as well as a page that clearly states my position on my blog and website (www.cimphotography.com).

For many artists and writers copyright maintenance is crucial to protect income and property rights for ourselves and our children.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:56:01 +0000

This is a great post. I will bookmark this for future reference. Thank you for sharing some copyright thing. This will be helpful in the future.