Bloggers’ rights: stolen content, no credit given
November 26, 2007
Stupid question:
Any one else discover that their content has been stolen and posted on another blog with no credit given – or worse – the credit was assumed by the re-poster and no links to your site were provided?
Stolen content:
I just discovered that my post from yesterday about multi-columns with CSS was stolen – (every word, image, link, and letter) … with all content deep linked to my site no less !!!!
I posted a comment on the offending site, but due to moderated comments, it hasn’t been posted yet.
It’s a little funny that the blogger cares about moderation of the content on his site since he doesn’t seem to have any problem with plagiarism.
which, by the way – what could his needs be in stealing content? is this an elaborate spamming or phishing scheme? or should I just be flattered?
I had considered linking to his site (for proof?) but have decided against it.
November 26, 2007 at 11:23 pm
i’ve had that happen before. i posted on the article something very angry and threatening hell and brimstone and they took it off eventually. some people write scraping programs to do that crap. i think it’s dumb and those people should have their thumbs cut off (only so they can’t use the spacebar)
November 27, 2007 at 3:38 am
I just contacted their domain host.
The odd thing is that I wouldn’t care if they just gave me credit and threw in a link… and cut out the deep linking
November 29, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Good move on not linking to it. As a heads up, odds are the domain host is going to require you to file a DMCA notice before they take action. If it comes to that, I have templates on my site and others are all over the Web. It’s a simple process and you can look up the contact information on the host’s site.
If you need any help with it, please let me know!
December 3, 2007 at 9:15 pm
[...] copyrighted content deleted. client warned. sorry. I just heard back from the web host about the plagiarizing site who was stealing and deep linking my content. [...]