As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.

Have you ever had an abuse agent go out of his way to help you? What about a DMCA agent who ignored your letters? Here is your chance to tell the world.

It’s been yet another strange week for copyright news with lots of updates and happening. There’s news from three continents and a special guest “appearance” by KISS frontman Gene Simmons.

How does your search engine do when detecting plagiarism? I’ve tested five different search engines and how many matches of my work they find. These tests provide some surprising results and offer insight into which services are best for plagiarism detection.

This year is starting off very well for me as we are only seven days into the New Year and, already, one of my predictions has come true.
I feel as if I cheated now…
Regardless, it is a Monday, that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show, the first [...]

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]

First off, Happy New Year’s Eve! It has been one heck of a year and this one is closing out with a bang, though perhaps not literally.
Since this year ends on a Monday, that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show, the final one for 2007.
As usual, I sat [...]

Since yestserday’s post about offloading images and multimedia to mitigate against false DMCA notices has generated some unexpected interest on the topic, I wanted to take a few moments and look at the companies I’ve worked with and discuss why I use the services that I do.
I also want to open up the floor for [...]

Yesterday, Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service Flickr announced that they were now offering their pro users advanced statistics to help them track their photos.
The announcement has been largely well-received and the addition of statistics was one of the most-requested features according to Flickr.
However, those who are interested in using the new tool to track where their [...]

Web startup Attributor, previously covered here, has announced the launch of their content monitoring and analysis platform and is openly accepting customers for their service.
According to Attributor, the system “works by allowing publishers to register and digitally fingerprint each piece of content” and then checking for uses of that content that violate previously determined rules [...]