As I understand it, it does rely on the crawling schedule of a site. Sponsors who provide content to affiliates have this problem. They add to their site then send out an affiliate mail with the same content, but because the affiliates update their blogs daily they are crawled first. So the sponsor looses their position and can even be penalised for duplicate content even though it was genuinely theirs. I cannot see how Google can rectify this other than systems adding a time stamp on publication, but this will require Google sitting down with software companies and implementing a standard (and uneditable) time stamp system in all publishing platforms from wordpress to social networks to shopping carts. Not going to happen any time soon.
Well, most people who do autoblogs don't build up the authority where they're usually outranking the sites they're copying. The system they have now works so well because of that. There are, however, people who really know what they're doing and will artificially build up an authority domain and outrank all their sources. This is rare though so it doesn't cause *that* many problems. It does happen though.
There's an article on one of my sites that gets copied/stolen all the time. While I usually rank ahead of it, there was a short time when someone posted it on Yahoo! Answers and that question was in turn posted on an industry leading site. That copy did rank higher than me until I got Yahoo! to take down the question under a DMCA which in turn removed the feed from the other site. It sucks that Google continues to rank the copies. They appear to know they are copies by ranking them after my article but the fact that they rank them at all just encourages this crap. A few suggestions that I've found that make it a little harder for scrapers and a whole lot easier to fight them... 1. Disable your RSS feeds, at least until the bots are visiting your site frequently enough that your work gets indexed first. 2. Also, make sure your articles include at least one mention of your site/blog name. Don't make it the first or last sentence, bury it in the middle of a paragraph or two. Most scrapers and thieves won't bother to read, much less edit the article and leave the mention of your site name intact. Links sometimes work too but I've found plain text is more often overlooked and left in place. Makes it really easy to launch a DMCA takedown request when the other site has posted something with your site's name in the middle of it.
I think there is no way to control this copy writing. Now-a-days you write an article and publish inside your site then many people copy that and past to other place. I think you should contact google adsense.
Google needs to really identify who first published the articles. And the second publisher, how so ever big , having high pr etc. must be punished and barred. Otherwise there is no meaning in punishing small site owners.
how will you clarify that the owner has not sold the original content to someone else, And that some-one else have not sold it some-one else. If that last person have a great page ranking site.Then in my opinion should have the right. But it's very difficult.
copy content could be easily found using the " " in your relevant phrase search... other option is copyscape which is very handy to check the copied content and its percentage wise. that really could help very well.