What do the following sites have in common: Flickr, Technorati, Icerocket, Google Blog Search and Youtube Answer: They all provide feeds to distribute content they do not own. While this has gone to great lengths to improve usability of these sites and has helped simplify thousands of people’s lives, it’s also created a headache for…
Category Archives: Heroes
Ezboard: Ez and Fast DMCA Resolution
I’ve handled at least a dozen cases of plagiarism involving ezboard . However, until recently, none of those cases involved any members of the ezboard staff. Instead, they dealt with message board owners, moderators and administrators that took the issue seriously and resolved it themselves. However, there are times in which ezboard itself will be…
Myspace: A Place for Plagiarism (Part Two)
This article continues where the first one left off. If you haven’t read that article, which was posted yesterday, March 16, I strongly encourage you to start with it. Why Myspace if Vulnerable First off, in fairness to Myspace, they do comply fully with the DMCA and they are not the only such site out…
Myspace: A Place for Plagiarism? (Part one)
I’ve spent much of the past day catching up on protecting my own works and handling incidents of plagiarism involving them. I have handled, literally, dozens of cases in the last 24 hours and have many more to do. However, during all of this, I began to notice a new trend in online plagiarism, It…
Allpoetry.com – Still Great
No matter how many good things I say about the Allpoetry network, they always seem to exceed my expectations. Today was no different. I was informed about someone plagiarizing one of my poems on the site. I investigated and, sure enough, someone was using my poem “97 Percent” as their own. The funny part, if…
GreatestJournal.com: Above and Beyond
Doing a referral check recently, I was shocked to find that GreatestJournal.com‘s trouble ticket system came up as a link to my site. It was odd because, even though I commonly deal with GJ.com on plagiarism issues, I hadn’t filed a report with them in nearly a month and all of my tickets had long…
Category Archives: Heroes
When APIs Attack
What do the following sites have in common: Flickr, Technorati, Icerocket, Google Blog Search and Youtube Answer: They all provide feeds to distribute content they do not own. While this has gone to great lengths to improve usability of these sites and has helped simplify thousands of people’s lives, it’s also created a headache for…
Ezboard: Ez and Fast DMCA Resolution
I’ve handled at least a dozen cases of plagiarism involving ezboard . However, until recently, none of those cases involved any members of the ezboard staff. Instead, they dealt with message board owners, moderators and administrators that took the issue seriously and resolved it themselves. However, there are times in which ezboard itself will be…
Myspace: A Place for Plagiarism (Part Two)
This article continues where the first one left off. If you haven’t read that article, which was posted yesterday, March 16, I strongly encourage you to start with it. Why Myspace if Vulnerable First off, in fairness to Myspace, they do comply fully with the DMCA and they are not the only such site out…
Myspace: A Place for Plagiarism? (Part one)
I’ve spent much of the past day catching up on protecting my own works and handling incidents of plagiarism involving them. I have handled, literally, dozens of cases in the last 24 hours and have many more to do. However, during all of this, I began to notice a new trend in online plagiarism, It…
Allpoetry.com – Still Great
No matter how many good things I say about the Allpoetry network, they always seem to exceed my expectations. Today was no different. I was informed about someone plagiarizing one of my poems on the site. I investigated and, sure enough, someone was using my poem “97 Percent” as their own. The funny part, if…
GreatestJournal.com: Above and Beyond
Doing a referral check recently, I was shocked to find that GreatestJournal.com‘s trouble ticket system came up as a link to my site. It was odd because, even though I commonly deal with GJ.com on plagiarism issues, I hadn’t filed a report with them in nearly a month and all of my tickets had long…
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