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Viewing Do You Know How to Deal with Article Copyright Violations?Do You Know How to Deal with Article Copyright Violations?
By Kathy Steinemann
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Writing informative articles is a good way to establish oneself as an authority on any topic. Article writing is also effective in promoting your website. However, other authors can easily plagiarize your work. Read this article for valuable advice. Writing informative articles for the Web is a good way to establish oneself as an authority on any topic. Article writing is also very effective in promoting your website. However, deceitful authors can easily plagiarize your work. Read this article for valuable advice and tips on how to cope with copyright violations. A few lazy people have plagiarized several of my articles. These sloths blatantly copied my hard work, word for word, without my bio and website links. So far, disreputable people running Google adSense sites have perpetrated all violations. My first reaction was to snoop around until I located contact information for the people responsible. However, these reprobates are usually quite good at hiding e-mail addresses and setting up blogs so that nobody can leave comments. Instead, I contacted Google. Google has a low tolerance for copyright violations. Infractions reflect poorly on their company, and they respond quickly to valid complaints. Performing a search for: 'google.com digital millennium copyright' will bring up a page with full contact information and instructions. It also provides links to other websites with more information on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. My next line of defense was to contact the hosting company for each degenerate. However, it can be tricky to track down a valid e-mail address. Sometimes you have to visit the site of the webhost to locate contact information. You may have to resort to a phone call if you cannot find anything else. The final step was to prepare a document similar to the one below, and fax it to Google as well as the hosting companies. I continued to monitor the websites with the bootlegged articles. In some cases, pirated content would disappear for a day or two and then reappear. --- BEGIN SAMPLE DOCUMENT --- All of the articles on the following pages are a violation of my intellectual copyright and the copyright of the article directory from which they were plagiarized: (Website link 1) (Website link 2) (Website link 3) etc. They were stolen from here: (Website link to author summary page at applicable article directory) The plagiarized material clearly violates the publisher's terms of service below, clearly linked to on the above page: (Website link to terms of service page in the article directory) Every article that this person has posted is a direct copy and paste of my work from the above article directory, without the appropriate copyright notice and active links to the article directory and my site, as clearly stated in their terms of service. I hereby state, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner. Name - Typed Signature --- END SAMPLE DOCUMENT --- You may have to modify the document's wording somewhat, changing 'article' to 'blog' or whatever is appropriate for your situation. Make sure that you include complete contact information, including your mailing address, e-mail address, fax number, and cell/telephone numbers. Be sure to incorporate a copyright notice at the end of every article - similar to the one below. As article authors, let us try to rid the Net of miscreants and thieves who reap illegal benefits from the efforts of others. (c) Copyright Kathy Steinemann: This article is free to publish only if this copyright notice, the byline, and the author's note below (with active links) are included. About the Author: Kathy writes articles on many topics for 1st Rate Articles, travel articles for 111 Travel Directory, and foreign language articles for A-Language-Guide. Article Source: 1st Rate Articles - http://1stRateArticles.com |
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