Comments on: Combating Online Plagiarism

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:13:00 +0000

No problem. I know first hand how frustrating it can be when someone steals content. I hope that helps you out.

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:49:00 +0000

Thanks for that information Gerald. As I some of my content was only recently stolen it will come in handy. So far I've only left some contents for them to be removed. If that doesn't work I will take further steps. .-= Sire´s last blog ..How Amazon And The Power Of Keywords Can Increase Your Earnings =-.

By: Rawmazing

Rawmazing — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:45:00 +0000

I have problems with people taking my photographs and content all the time, thinking that if they just include a link somewhere it is just fine. I have had a lot of success with just emailing them, letting them know everything is copyrighted and I do have terms. I am happy to share, as I don't mind the links but they have to follow my instructions. It is very frustrating to pull up someone's site and see 4-5 of my photos on it with a tiny little link... .-= Rawmazing´s last blog ..Raw Food and Being Mindful =-.

By: Rich Dansereau

Rich Dansereau — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:33:15 +0000

Plagiarism, scraping, and other forms of stealing are a major issues. Like you said, I spend lots of time creating and researching my posts. I am careful to give credit, including citations and links, when I quote someone or use portions of their posts as source material. Many posts are inspirations for other original posts. IMHO this is very different from stealing entire posts and passing them off as your original work. I have found that contacting the thief does work in many cases but that it can be quite an exhaustive and time consuming process. A friend of mine who is a prolific blogger has resorted to filing for cease and desist orders; this is also a very time consuming process but she finds it useful for US based content thieves. I wish people would just learn some ethics. And it really pisses me off that Google does not take a stand and in fact publicizes the fact that they only penalize a thief if they have 'deceptive' or 'manipulative' intent. .-= Rich Dansereau´s last blog ..Duplicate Content, Generic Content, Scraped Content, Syndicated Content…What’s The Diff? =-.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Well that is a different issue I believe. Almost anything has been written about at one time or another. I’m mostly referring to blatant palgiarism. i.e. I have had people copy post word for word and even use the exact same images. I don’t think a similar title is considered plagiarism but you if you identical line/paragraphs etc then that’s what I call palgiarism. I don’t think simply writing about the same thing or having a similar topics is considered plagirism. If it’s been written about a lot maybe that could just be called unoriginal.

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