If you find someone copying your posts (a lot of them and integrally) on blogger (blogspot) how should you proceed? Is there a way to contact blogger about this? Is there anything I can do with the adsense pub number of the guy?
Have you emailed him about it? Could you install the right click/hilight blocker on your site, i'm not sure if you can do that on blogspot or not.
It's a big problem. There are official channels you can use but if it was me I would try and make contact with the offender first and politely ask them to stop stealing my content - do this by email or leaving a comment. If they fail to heed your polite warning you've got two choices - either grit your teeth and bare it or report to Google as a DMCA violation. You can only report in writing (fax or letter) and not by email. Refer to the following page: http://www.google.com/dmca.html If it was happening to me I would try and resolve the issue without going to Google - it could get messy or costly. Put it down to experience.
Flag the blog, if he has adsense , then use the adsense reporting feature to tell google that the blogspot site copied from you directly. report the site to antisplog.net and splogspot.com, in other word, harras him in whatever way you can lol
thanks for the advice. in those situations I also prefer to approach the other party in a friendly way, but there is no contact, email on the blog on comments are not available. Also as I said its on blogspot or else I would try to contact the hosting provider.
Dan.. Blogger takes VERY slow to respond to copyright issues.. read lots of posts complaining about it. Send an email to Google Adsense .. they'll usually respond quickly (at least for me they did).
That just leaves the contacting Google approach, I really hate splogs my content gets ripped all of the time.
Yep, hopefully they have adsense on because Google specifically points to the DMCA in their application process. I'd stay away from right-click/copy blocker scripts, it it harder for other bloggers to copy content for a trackback, etc. Last case scenario at best at least.
Oh, and another thing to look at is using an image handler so that remote linking gets a nice warning about stolen content rather than the image they wanted. Doesn't work if they're just copying text, but if they rip images too, it'll work.
Read this http://www.blogged-out.com/2007/03/06/take-steps-to-protect-your-content/ Will be useful if you use Wordpress. Also check out http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/ very useful site.