Protect Your Posts!
So you just spent a couple of hours hammering away at the keys to create a great post on your blog, you publish it on your blog and wait for commenters and visits to roll in. A couple of minutes later, you find out that your post has been copied on another blog and he was claiming ownership, not even providing a link to your site. You see a lot of commenters congratulating the copier from doing a great post and subscribing to his RSS feeds. Naturally you’d be feeling angry that this copier stole your post and is earning from it.
Not only are small time probloggers a victim of this shenanigans but those who are big time as well. For example, B2B CFO is a victim of plagarism a lot of times.
In June 2009, searches for key phrases unique to B2B CFO’s Web site content resulted in a stunning discovery of dozens of other businesses plagiarizing the company’s content word-for-word on their Web sites. The problem was so widespread that this year alone B2B CFO has encountered more than 40 separate cases of plagiarism, including several competitors using B2B CFO’s registered trademark.
So how did they deal with it? B2B CFO’s Founder and CEO, Jerry L. Mills and Rick Daigle, the company’s Website Plagiarism Specialist did the following:
According to Daigle, when an offender is first identified, all relative evidence of the infringement is collected and saved. Next, Mills and Daigle send a “cease and desist” letter notifying the offender of the laws against copyright infringement as a direct violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and International Law. They give the offender 72 hours to correct the issue before turning the violators over to the firm’s law firm.
Good tip. If you’re not sure on how to do it contact a lawyer that specializes in this one.
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