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JamesRouse
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Posted: Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 10:17 pm |
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Research The Thief
There are several ways of discovering who stole your content the one that has worked best for me is http://www.whoisdomaintools.com. All you need to do is copy (maybe highlight would be a better word) the website address and paste it into the search box. This will bring back the name, address,phone,e-mail,web host,and more information that may be of use.
Other methods would be the contact us form, about us page, alexa, and the meta tags that you can find by checking the page source.
Contact The Thief
Be cautious when you first contact the thief. Put your anger on the back burner and write a non threatening e-mail that describes the theft, request that they remove the content or at least give you credit as the author, and give them a time frame to comply. 7 days is good. Some people think that content online is free for the taking , which it is not. They may be oblivious to the copyright laws or simply playing dumb. Most times this solves the problem and they comply. Be professional at all times no matter what sort of response you may get from the thief.
Prepare For battle
Hopefully you won't get to this stage but just in case you do gather all the information that you can to prove the content is yours. I usually do a google search to find the original cache file and create a screenshot of this page. If you were fortunate enough to have comments made on your article showing the dates of the comments create a screenshot of that as well.
Send A Cease And Desist Order
There are many different cease and desist orders that can be found online. Find one that suits your needs best. A cease and desist order gets right to the point. Remove my content or else; plus there are monetary consequences with a cease and desist order. This usually gets the point across that you mean business. However, if it doesn't get you the results by all means send a copy to their host. Once they receive an e-mail from their host with the threat of shutting down their website your problem should be solved.
Back in May of this year (2009) I shared an article that I wrote titled An Internet Network Marketing Coach Altered My E-zine Article And I'm Not Happy About That on Digg. Since this was my first experience with a content thief I'll have to admit that I didn't follow the advice that I share in this post when making first contact. It did, however, in a non threatening way get the point across and solved my problem.
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marcromero
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Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2009 01:25 am |
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| Very useful information! Thank you very much. On the flip side, when you get to the point that someone is stealing your content it means you have done something right along the way!
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JamesRouse
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Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2009 01:37 am |
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You are so right? If someone feels compelled to steal your content you have done a better job than they could. Or they are just lazy.
Some people don't realize that by giving credit for other peoples work you are actually providing a service to your visitors. They recognize this which is all part of the trust building process.
If your visitors get wind that you are being dishonest your goose is cooked.
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missltorres
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Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2009 12:56 pm |
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I had some people steal my content as well. I use http://www.Copyscape.com to see who is using my content without permissions AND you can put a "this page is protected by copyscape" logo on your site as well. I add it at the end of ALL of my blog posts.
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