When you create a work and get copyright protection over it, you have a set of exclusive rights over that work. One of those rights is the right to create derivative works, including translations.

If someone is taking your works and translating them into a foreign language without your permission, that is a violation of copyright law and you would handle it like any other situation, through either a DMCA notice (or other host contact) or a cease and desist letter.

However, there is a difference between translating someone’s work and using someone else’s idea to create a work in another language. Copyright does not protect an idea, just the expression thereof. You’ll have to determine how much of your original work is being used and the best way to do that would be through an automated translation tool such as Babelfish and/or a human translator.

If you need any help on the specifics of the case, feel free to send me an email!

When you create a work and get copyright protection over it, you have a set of exclusive rights over that work. One of those rights is the right to create derivative works, including translations.

If someone is taking your works and translating them into a foreign language without your permission, that is a violation of copyright law and you would handle it like any other situation, through either a DMCA notice (or other host contact) or a cease and desist letter.

However, there is a difference between translating someone’s work and using someone else’s idea to create a work in another language. Copyright does not protect an idea, just the expression thereof. You’ll have to determine how much of your original work is being used and the best way to do that would be through an automated translation tool such as Babelfish and/or a human translator.

If you need any help on the specifics of the case, feel free to send me an email!

Through a little investigation, I found someone in another country who has started a site exactly like mine except in a different language. In addition to copying the setup, vision and reading everything I posted, this person continues to monitor me daily in an attempt to get more ideas for content.

Isn’t it still plagiarism if someone is stealing your content and just translating everything into a different language?

And what does one do in a situation like this?

Please feel free to use my e-mail address or post publicly if you feel it might help others in the same situation. Many thanks!

Through a little investigation, I found someone in another country who has started a site exactly like mine except in a different language. In addition to copying the setup, vision and reading everything I posted, this person continues to monitor me daily in an attempt to get more ideas for content.

Isn’t it still plagiarism if someone is stealing your content and just translating everything into a different language?

And what does one do in a situation like this?

Please feel free to use my e-mail address or post publicly if you feel it might help others in the same situation. Many thanks!

As far as letting everyone speak their peace, that’s just me being a journalist. The four years in college wasn’t a total waste.

Thank you again for the support!

As far as letting everyone speak their peace, that’s just me being a journalist. The four years in college wasn’t a total waste.

Thank you again for the support!

Also, you are correct that MyDropBox and SafeAssign are the same product and thank you for clarifying that here. I wanted to list them as separate since A) They were listed separate on your results and B) They are two separate brands with two different targets, as you pointed out.

In that regard, it’s similar to how iThenticate and Turnitin are the same service, but different brands. Of course, that brings me to my real screw up with this article, flipping the names iThenticate and iParadigms. Easy mistake, but iParadigms is the company and iThenticate is their business product.

I’ve corrected the article to reflect that and confirmed that I got far too little sleep this week.