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The Internet is Not for Granted
Picture this. How would you feel if a clone of you was made, without your permission? Recently, I spotted some blogs taking bits and pieces from my content - that includes text, images and anything else! I hate saying this but I have to remind you that it is illegal to do so and take your attention to the button in the bottom right corner of my blog, with the text "some rights reserved" under it.Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers an alternative to full copyright. With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify there.
Here are my conditions:
You are free:
- to Share - to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work.
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
- Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
- Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Legal action can (and will) be taken for blog plagiarism but there are also other options:
"What To Do When Someone Steals Your Blog's Content - Blog Plagiarism" by Darren Rowse
"What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content" by Lorelle VanFossen
"Dealing With Website Plagiarism: When Someone Copies Your Blog Content?" by Amit Agarwal
Thank you for your co-operation! :)
[Thumbnail image: Comic Art Collective]
10 thoughts:
First of all, your blog is good. I like it, keep up the good work.
Regarding your post, You can track more bloggers who are stealing your content at copyscape.com
Hope that could help you!
Git on, Ilker! I really like your style and thanks for that bit of information Manzkee. Yer ahight, too!
I don't know to what extent people are using your work, but for small portions or parodies, you have to factor in international laws.
In the US, you can quote portions of a work if you are analyzing it, i.e. responding, but you need to identify the source. You may quote the whole work with minor changes here and there if you are doing a parody you do NOT need to give sources.
A person amy NOT legally reproduce the entire work without permission (and I have seen a few doing such) even if they give full attribution (and I have seen most of them give it), and legally (under US law), you may force them to stop. However, on the flip side, do you want them to stop, as yes, they make money from your work, but they give you free advertizing. That is your call, and your post responds to that.
You probably knew much of that, and you probably know quite a bit about international laws given a) you are not a US citizen and b) your travel and upbringing. I just want to make sure you know about those somewhat obscure aspects of US law, which is what most copiers faull under.
:)
Well, this also means that you are getting popular!.. I spit on fame! HATE ME!! HATE ME ALL!!!.. Woah!.. I need a valium!.. If that can cheer you up! There are, out there, hundreds of Boing Boing\\Wired\\Techcrunch\\.. clones! People just copy paste the content of popular blog and feel good about it!.. This is a sad Cyber_World we live in?!..
Wait?!! Didn't I already said that? Deja-vu!! ;P
Btw! I thought that you would do so but It was already posted and I was in bed and the idea of getting up to edit this just didn't sound like fun!..
It wasn't me! ;)
My blogs are licensed under a Creative Common License too ;)
Here are some suggestions from Mark Evans:
"So what can you do if another blogger is ripping off your work? You can start with a friendly comment or e-mail, suggesting that while you’re flattered by the attention, it would be better if they put together their own thoughts on a particular topic while citing the blog where they got the idea through a hat tip or link. If that doesn’t work, a harsher e-mail or a post on your blog outing the plagiarist may be the next move. In extreme cases, you can considering using Digital Millennium Copyright Act, (DMCA) to compel people to take down material seen as infringing on copyrighted content."
What Mark said. I found someone who copied a long post of mine without attribution and I posted a comment saying "Glad you liked it! Come back real soon!" He removed the post. But, of course, it's still in the Google cache of his site. Damn technology!
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