Comments on: How To Find Stolen Content & Get It Removed http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-find-stolen-content-get-it-removed/ Websites are now a must-have for every business. Our web development blog delivers the latest in tips and tricks to help you create a compelling website, generate traffic, and outperform your competitors. Looking for professional help? Velvet Blues offers a wide variety of website-related services such as: complete web development, eCommerce website creation, design, XHTML/CSS slicing, search engine optimization, and content management with custom or open source software such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paulhttp://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-find-stolen-content-get-it-removed/#comment-5278 Paul Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.velvetblues.com/?p=186#comment-5278 Hi,
As you state if your website is very popular, chances are that someone may want to steal your content and use it on their site. I believe the search engines (e.g. Google) are helping the original publishers in a way by demoting “duplicate content” on their listings. This means generally the first to publish the content is deemed to be the real owner. Google and other SEs can investigate other ways of reducing content theft for the good of the Internet community.
Paul

]]> By: Rev.Shttp://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-find-stolen-content-get-it-removed/#comment-5169 Rev.S Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:36:06 +0000 http://www.velvetblues.com/?p=186#comment-5169 As writers, we know its bound to happen sooner or later, your website content gets lifted from your pages and placed on another without your knowledge and without any credit to you to authenticate the story. This is a big problem in the paranormal field where you will find websites where stories are copied and pasted and the original author is untraceable. But I must say, this is the first time I have run across such a blatant theft of my work and found in an unlikely place, the Firefighters Union Of Largo Florida, the IAFF local 2427! The article on their website about the Littlefields Nursing Home Fire in Largo Florida 1953, was posted on Aug 10, 2009. However, my original story was posted on my website on Tuesday, February 05, 2008, a year and a half before theirs. What really makes me upset is that at the end of this article, many are credited, most are my original credits in the story but NO credit to me for my hard work, research and not to mention the money I spent resarching the story. Their credits are as folllows sources: St. Petersburg times, Largo Sentinel, March 29, 1953 , special thanks to the ladies at the Largo library, more thanks to Tony Massaro for collecting the history. Who is Tony Massaro?????? Is he the guy who is responsible for lifting the content from my website? Is this what the Largo firefighters call “collecting the history? ” You can view the theft here http://www.iaff2427.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=134824 . You can read my original story here http://sinthyiadarkness.blogspot.com/2008/02/littlefields-nursing-home-fire-1953.html and compare the two. As you can see, this is my story word for word. The only difference is Tony Massaro getting “more thanks.”

I have sent an email and let them know that they have copyrighted material up on their website. This stolen content had been in public view and distributed freely without credit or compensation to me. Credit of course would remedy the plagiarism aspect of this but not Copyright Infringement. There is an email story feature which invites people to redistribute my article, a feature that I have never had on this website because the copyright license that the corporation that owns this website grants is for immediate viewing only. They can’t say that they didn’t know who authored that article because my name is on it as is my copyright notice and stealing from a ministry too. That’s really sad. I will keep you updated on the developments of this story.

]]> By: Velvet Blueshttp://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-find-stolen-content-get-it-removed/#comment-1462 Velvet Blues Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:14:53 +0000 http://www.velvetblues.com/?p=186#comment-1462 That is a great suggestion. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Jeff Couturierhttp://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-find-stolen-content-get-it-removed/#comment-1445 Jeff Couturier Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.velvetblues.com/?p=186#comment-1445 Great article. I hadn’t heard of Copyscape but it’s a great suggestion.

One thing I’d like to add to the methods for finding your stolen content is using Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts). You can create an alert for any string of text in Google’s index and receive notice as it happens, once a day or once a week.

I’ve created Google Alerts for most of the static copy on our site so when someone steals a specific phrase I’ll be alerted. This has gone a long way in helping us track down design & code thieves. If they’ll steal your copy, they are likely to steal the rest as well.

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