Wednesday, January 23, 2008
A warning to new bloggers
If you work really hard on your blog you would feel really rotten if someone stole your work, wouldn't you? The same thing happens to blog posts. You spend your time writing and conveying a message only to have someone copy and paste it. Sometimes they take your photo too, and put it on their blog or website and make it look like it was their work. I had that happen to me today. It was a blog post from one of my other blogs. I took the time to research the article and even provide my own photo. I came across the "thief" when I was searching Technorati for reactions to my blog. There was a new one and when I visited the blog there was my blog post, picture and all with her by line. I posted a comment in her comments section and politely told her to remove my work. I told her she could write her own blog post and put a link to my blog post but it was against the USA copyright law for her to copy and paste my whole article without my permission. I just checked the blog again and she has changed it to the way it should be. I also noted that she has removed any way to place a comment to it. If you come across your work and can not contact the person stealing your work, then just contact the blog or website hosting company. They are very good at shutting down blogs like that.
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Technorati is great for checking which blogs link to yours, just today I found a blog quoting a small extract of different blog posts and linking to the posts, only the one that shows as a reaction to my blog does not match my post and links to a completely different site; the only way I found it is because the "blogger" used my blogger ID!
I think I will write her a little comment and ask her to correct the error.
Unfortunatly the internet is full of theives. Just today I was reading the Pay Per Post forum message board and found out that someone made a video for an advertiser and another blogger copied it and put it on their site. That other blogger was also working for PPP. The orginal blogger that made the video was denied payment because it was identical to another video (the copy!). Many irate bloggers made comments on the thief's blog that they removed that video and replaced it with another stolen copy!! The bloging thief seems to write in broken english and puts their location in India. They are currently trying to have his blog shut down and kicked out of PPP.
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