Obviously, if you place a timestamps and/or watermark images on sites that you have control of there is no chance of other claims to override it. We simply include date and copyright notice, and anyone disregarding it can't say a word.
Chances are if your content is there and indexed before someone copies it (because they would have to find it via search engine most likely) then google will consider you the original source. They cache the latest and previous versions of pages, and know exactly when they were first seen. Were it a higher PR site that copied you, google is probably hitting it more, and would therefore detect new content sooner - and since your site had the content first, it would determine that this is duplicate. That may even come with a penalty - which most higher pr sites aren't willing to take.
So if that's the case, after you upload new content its best to search for your site in Google then start clicking your links in Google...don't wait for someone else to do the search...
How about this. I am going to try to make this as simple as possible. Google crawls your web site if you allow it to. Google has access to every page, file, and directory on your website. Part of that access includes the ability to read your files and to read the contents of your directories. When google reads the directories he is getting a list of all of the files in that directory. Part of the process of reading a directory includes getting other information such as the "creation date" and/or "last time modified" date. For example, when you go into your control panel and use the File Manager to look at your website, you will see a list of the files, date created, and permissions. It is the same thing as using Windows Explorer to look at your C drive. Make sense? Now, I don't know if Google actually does it but it could if he wanted to. I do think that Google really does not care who created what first and does not care about the file creation dates. Google will just use the first site it found and display those results. Even though you might have created a file 6 weeks ago and Google hasn't indexed it yet, and I copy that file today and Google finds it, I win and you lose. Now, as far as article directories go, that is a different story. I recently read where a person published their article on their own site and then submitted it to Ezine articles. It was rejected for duped content. The author contacted EZ and explained that it was his site they found the article on. EZ wrote back and told him to put his name on the article as the author (on his site). He did, and EZ accepted his article.
This is has been a question over my mind for many months now. However, with proper research and practical experience, i have concluded the following: 1) Google search engine is a software not human, therefore whatever is shown to it, it believes in it. If the content is exclusively created by you, yet someone else put it on the web before you and Google SE saw it, then it will consider that content to be later persons work. 2) Of course High PR site will have its content indexed faster than low PR. That means if a high PR site steals your content early, there are high chances that they can make it their content because Google SE is not human. 3) There are ways in which you can save your content and have it indexed immediately. A simple way would be to bookmark your new article on a high PR Bookmarking site like delicious etc. This problem of content stealing is something that cannot be resolved or corrected. There will always be some thugs out there trying to steal others work. The only way to safe guard your content is to have it indexed before anyone else does. Hope this helps!
Well, they don't really know who's content was first. But, they can see which website is older between the two. Yugo,
I can't answer the question but I may be able to help a littlebit. If you use wordpress then you could use the wp-copyprotect plugin. Then rightclick is disabled. They can still either type your info or there is one other way but at least it would sway some people from copy pasting.
First you should always write original content for your sites. You should also always write original content for submission to directories like EzineArticles, otherwise your will be competing with yourself for the same content and KWs. Content that you publish to Ezine or any other directory should be complimentary to your sites content and use LSI words throughout the body. As far as content on your site actually being stolen and published on someone elses ... honestly that is such a small concern I would not spend much time worrying about. Even if one or two people did steal your content it would not be enough to cause a duplicate content issue ... but if giving yourself some protection is really important just social bookmark your webpages when you publish anything new to them. This can act as "proof" and it will get Google to crawl/index your pages faster.
Well if you are smart, you use wordpress so any time you write something it will be on your feedburner and Google will even index it in 15 min or more for me my blog it was 15 min...
actually i am quite ego and happy about it when my contents are stolen. it make me feel good and motivate me to create more articles to be stolen. like the previous posts mention, if someone can steal your article, most likely your articles are already indexed.