You can upload other peoples articles aslong as you include the authors signature link/resource box too. What if somebody steals your articles from article directories, and puts uploads them on their site for themselves WITHOUT the resource box -so they just steal the article.. this is plagiarism..... whats the worse I can do to that theif? (besides email them and say take them off) ? legally what can I do? can I sue them? or it is hard to catch people who put your articles, and because it is too hard not worth worrying about... or can i contact this hosting company/domain registrant and complain, and they can Shut down that persons domain/webpage? (or is that too far- the domain registrant wont do anythying) What if you steal articles from article directories and put them on your site WITHOUT including their resource box....and they find out, what is the worse they can do to you? ...and have any of them situations ever happened to you ? Thanks
If they steal articles then they are more likely to be hit due to google duplicate content penalty. Still you can ask them to take it down else contact there hosting company under dmca violence if still unanswered you can ask the datacenter where they r hosted to take it down. Finally you can sue them which will be costly I think
That really depends how much trust their domain has. If it's bigger then the one with the original article, the original site is going to be hit by the penalty
This is a nice tips what to do if your articles are stolen : http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/
This is by no means universally true. You can only do this with permission. (Granted, at some sites, permission is given for the whole site contents). Regarding the rest, suing isn't much of an option, because to gain anything, you have to prove you've suffered financial damage, which isn't always easy. It can be better to use the threat of complaining to their ISP and website-host as a negotiating-lever to get the stolen property removed quickly.
Contact their host, or, as guru says, break their legs Sueing would be pointless, not only because it would be incredibly time consuming and annoying, but would also cost a lot of money, and, if you didn't win, you're a lot of money out of pocket. I suppose if you're running a site making hundreds per day when another site comes along and copies all your content, then you make nothing and they make hundreds per day, THEN it would be worth it...
Most of the people just copy paste the article without even reading. So if some sites permit add one link within content and thanks for the link dynashox
How is that going to stop them from doing it, they're probably sitting on their butt most of the time anyway.
track them and do your job as they all are doing there job to achive sucess then waste you time time to contact to their host and also to them to remove articles and in mean time more will copy your article ,then how you can stop all of them as day by day black hat is increasing.
First step is ask them to link back to your site and declare that the article is written by you. If they still not doing it,you can take this matter to the host company and ask them to suspend the hosting. But i don't think any host will do this coz it will harm their biz The worst thing you can do is. Create a new website and setup a campaign to talk bad about the thief. So their reputation will be spoil
Absolutely correct. I had an article stolen by someone who thought changing three or four words would save them from me being able to do anything. I contacted them and then contacted their ISP that they were hosting a site directly in violation with their TOS and if they didn't rectify the problem I would sue both the offender and them, citing that they have been notified of the violation and not responding to it would make them culpable. The article, and the offenders site went down the next day.
The smart people wont steal your content word for word. They will have an automated program that takes it and tweaks it just enough to pass Googles Duplicate Content.
I live by Copyscape, here is a section of their site aimed at defending against plagiarism: 1. Look for contact details on the offending site and send a polite message asking for the material to be removed. If there are no contact details available, try emailing webmaster@ the domain. 2. Use a Whois service to find out the website owner's name and telephone number and contact them directly. Enter the domain name in the search box and the contact information should appear towards the bottom of the page. 3. Contact the web hosting company used by the site and inform them of their customer's abuse. This information is also available through a Whois search. 4. Send a formal 'Cease and Desist' letter notifying the offending party that they must remove the stolen content from their site. Some sample letters are available on the web. 5. File a notice of Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement with search engines such as Google and others to have the offending site removed from their search results. 6. If you need proof of infringement, you can use the Internet Archive to show that the content appeared on your site at an earlier date than it appeared on the offending site.
IN the end there really isnt anything you can do about sites stealing your content. Its happened to me, I shrug it off. I still stand way higher that those sites on search engines. Somehow it always works out
most of the advice seems pointless expect for the last, what can you do? you have two options. 1: stop writing articles that you know will be taken for other sites. 2: write more articles, so people can keep taking them, and in the end maybe you will get your deserved credit, maybe you wont. this is not complicated, anything that can be put on the net, can and probably will be taken for other uses, you can either ignore it, stop writing, or write more.