Content theft
Related entries in Blogging newsThere are a lot of illicit blogging practices out there. One of them in particular annoys me because of the lack of solutions. Content theft.
What do you do when someone, like this, steals your content? Sure, they link back to you, but is it obvious that it’s not their content? In some cases, links are not even included.
Content theft is usually when the content is ripped off without link or attribution, in part or whole. Content theft, IMO, is not someone using your content with a blockquote and link. I am good with that. But I am not good with unclear situations.
So, when you have no way to contact that person - via email or comment - the only extreme choice is to try to get their blog removed from the host. I won’t go that far for one post. If it were every post, you betcha.
Have you experienced content theft? If so, what did you do?
Tags: content theft, copyright, stealing
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January 14th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Wow, I was expecting a huge blockquote saying “blogginghelp says…”
Well at least it can’t hurt your GPR.
January 14th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
This didn’t look like content theft to me. They just had a small excerpt and a link to your site. I’d like to get more of those for my blog!
January 16th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I’m kind of strict about how people quote me. I like it to be clear, even if I do support creative commons.
February 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Yeah, late response, but a blog friend recently experienced content theft on his site. I posted about it (as there was no way to contact the individual) and forgot about it.
Many days later I was contacted by the owner and he shut down the site (he wasn’t a spammer or anything, but was using it to keep up to date with what was happening around the web).
I am glad the situation was resolved though–and was happy he took the initiative to resolve the issue. :)