If reading this site and enduring the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again.
These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it.
As a recent article on [...]

I’ve always felt that there is something to be said for solving a problem face to face. It seems, to me, that it is always best to resolve disagreements directly, when possible, and not involve outside parties.
The cease and desist letter is the obvious way to handle plagiarism and content theft matters face to [...]

Following the recent spate of content theft at deviantArt, one of the artists that had her work lifted, Deb Walker, has created a profile and started a group dedicated to tracking down and stopping theft of dA member’s works.
The group, entitled the RippedArtTaskForce, opened its doors eariler this week and according to its description, is [...]

The most commonly requested feature for Plagiarism Today has been stock letters to help you send out either cease and desist or DMCA notices.
If you’ve been waiting for such a feature, then today is your lucky day.
Though I’ve posted sample letters as part of I’ve now added it as a permanent part of the site [...]

For those who did not know, including myself, today, July 11, is Fair Use Day.
It is a day to celebrate the freedoms that fair use gives us and, according to the organizers, “Exercise your Fair Use rights or contact a corporation or government of your choosing and let them know you want Fair Use rights [...]

As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web.
Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of these [...]

I’ve teamed up with the editors at Performancing to create a Legal Issues Forum on their site. I am serving as an adviser on that forum, answering legal questions that bloggers may face.
Though the forum is targeted largely at copyright and content theft issues, any and all legal questions that relate to blogging and the [...]

In the United States, though copyright protection takes effect the minute that a work is fixated into a tangible medium of expression, enforcing those rights is a much trickier matter. As according to the U.S. Copyright Office, registration with the USCO is a requirement before suing in Federal court.
Furthermore, only if a work is registered [...]

Many times, when dealing with plagiarism issues, Webmasters adopt something of a “shotgun” approach to stopping the infringement.
In short, they will, almost simultaneously, send out cease and desist letters, DMCA notices (or other host contacts) as well as contacts to advertisers and search engines. Many will further complicate things by posting about the infringement on [...]

In a pair of previous posts I lauded Google’s progress in the war on Spam on its Blogspot service. Though my intuition was confirmed, at least somewhat, by Google itself, it appears I might have spoken too soon.
I recently ran across this link on the social news site Reddit. It is a submissions listing for [...]