When you write an article or buy an article from a writer, how can you prevent that someone else just copy-pastes it on his blog or website ?
I use content that I find on Article Publishing sites all the time. And I submit to those same sites in hopes that my articles will get published on other peoples sites as long as they keep the about the author box the way it is . By doing this get one way links back to my site. Which is why I write articles in the first place. To get the one way links back to my site. Why would you not want your article to show up on other peoples sites if youget links pointing back to your site?? Frank
I should have mentioned, how can you avoid people using your content without placing a link to your site?
Basically, you can't do much appart from contacting the website admin and kindly asking for a backlink to you (assuming you are the author of the article). Other than that, unfortunately, you can't afford to spend time and money on a legal solution. It mught turn out to be not worth the effort. Design & content thieves are a difficult fight, I'd just suggest direct dialogue.
You might want to take a look at this article. http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/legalmatters/a/websitetheftjb.htm
Yes, but it is the responsibility of the copyright owner to enforce their copyright. If you buy articles from people, you need to think about what rights you bought. Was it to use the article once, and allow the author to sell it to others? To prevent this you need to explicitly buy all rights and your copyright notice needs to include the statement "All rights reserved." Buying all rights does not prevent the author from rewriting the article multiple times and selling the rewritten version to other sites and publications -- each of which buys some or all rights to their copy. A new twist on the internet is the modestly growing use of the Creative Commons copyright. This does allow material to be reused as long as the original copyright notice is not removed.
You can't stop someone from taking them. But when they do, you have a responsibility to go after them if you want to protect your interests. Whether they credit you or not (or link back to you) doesn't matter. They're not allowed to do that unless you make your content available for that purpose.
Hi Frank, The main reason why someone wouldn't want this is because it destroys value. By using the article (links or not), you're removing the exclusivity that article possess. Having content only available at your source is a great asset. Now, that's assuming the article is only available from one source. Links or not, if you don't have permission to use it, you can be sued. Please make sure you have permission. I'd hate to hear about you getting sued for thousands of dollars per item. Jason
I have submitted a number of articles to the larger article directories. I would guess maybe 2/3 of the websites that reprint the articles play by the rules. Then, there is the rest of them. Some remove the live links, some change the links, some remove the about the author section and some remove my name from the article all together. They are easy to find, place a unique phrase or sentence from your article in quotes on Google, Yahoo and MSN. If they altered article or the links back to my website, I send them an e-mail. Website owners are generally pretty responsive. One e-mail usually takes care of the problem. About half will restore the orginal article and the other half remove it from their site. If there is not a e-mail address on the website, do a whois on the domain. If they don't respond, you can submit a DMCA request to the hosting company to have the content removed. If you are having problems with people copying an article and posting on it their MySpace site or similiar, contact the hosting company. They are pretty quick to remove copyrighted material or take down the site altogether.