As an avid WordPress user, there are a few plugins I’d like to see developed to help people protect their content.

The GateHouse/NYT dispute over RSS aggregation has ended in an abrupt settlement. What does this mean for bloggers and aggregating services?

A new services called Copygator promises to change the way you detect your content. With a simplified detection and reporting system, it seems to have a lot to offer bloggers, but can the detection live up to its marketing?

The cease and desist letter has gone from a dying art to an art that is effectively dead. Why is that, what does it mean and what can be done?

Though proxying is by no means a new technology, new services have pushed the technology to the forefront of the content theft debate and forced Webmasters to deal with a new method of Web site “copying”.

BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?

For the most part, bloggers who host their own sites have greater control and protection than those who use a third party. However, a little-known feature at Google’s Blogger service may help level the playing field some.

Feedblitz has come under fire for its new “private label domain” service. However, even as the relatively benign service attracts a great deal of attention, a fatal flaw in the Feedblitz site turns Feedblitz into one of the most effective spam bloggers to date.

Photo-sharing site Flickr has come under fire as developers have used its API to violate the rights of its users, seemingly unchecked by Flickr itself.

In a 20-minute screencast, Duncan Riley adeptly explains the issues with RSS scraping, why it is not acceptable and why many so-called services are treading on very thin legal/moral ice.