Many authors and experts, both established and new, use article marketing in order to promote themselves and their sites.
The idea itself is pretty simple. You write a series of relatively short articles, put them out there for anyone to use and, when other sites republish them they’ll include both your name and a link back [...]

Yesterday, the makers of the controversial Pay Per Post service launched a new tool designed to make blog reading faster, RSS Brief.
The idea is that the service takes long posts, like what you might expect here on Plagiarism Today, and condenses them down into a few short sentences.
Though the service sounds convenient and [...]

For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts.
These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers.
Despite the apparent conflict of interest, [...]

In a recent post on TechCrunch, Duncan Riley sparked a controversy by saying that the blogs created by Google Reader’s linkblog feature “already break copyright and in a small way undermine blogs and content creators.”
That statement resulted in a flurry of comments with individuals falling on both sides of the debate. The debate then quickly [...]

For the next chapter in the “DMCA Seven” series, we’re taking a look at one of the most common types of hosts out there, blog hosts.
Many of these hosts have been copyright headaches for Webmasters. They are prime targets for spam blogs and scrapers and some have played a huge role in rise of [...]

On the surface, YouTube seems like a natural haven for fair use. The entire system is designed from the ground up to allow the posting of short, low resolution video clips and then embed those clips into blogs and other Web sites for commentary and criticism.
When you look up the four factors of fair use, [...]

For the next segment in our “DMCA Seven” feature, we will take a look at the “Darlings of the DMCA” as I’ve come to know them, the video sharing sites.
These sites, many of which have been sued or are operating under the constant threat of being sued, have their very livelihood centered around whether or [...]

When Sallie Goetsch received a Google Alert for her name, she was originally excited. It meant, most likely, that one of her free Web articles had been picked up and used by another site.
However, when she followed the link, she found something else. Rather than a properly attributed article, complete with bio and proper [...]

For the next segment in our “DMCA Seven” feature, we will take a look at the DMCA policy on seven of the largest social networking sites including Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and more.
In each case we will evaluate their policy, look for weaknesses and, as necessary, recommend steps for improvement.
However, as you can see [...]

Previously on this site, I’ve talked about how the DMCA agent list suffers from decay and is slipping into antiquity. Already, I only reference the U.S. Copyright Office’s list when the information isn’t readily available on the host’s Web site due both to hosts who haven’t registered with the USCO and hosts who haven’t maintained [...]