copyright infingement
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I have had a problem with bloggers scarping my content. Here is a lonk to a WordPress blogger who used my poem without permission:
http://www.famlove.cn/?p=12335
Any ideas on how to stop this? I have a Create Commons copyright icon on my blog. Guess that doen’t mean too much to some people.
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Okay, I need to learn how to type. The above question should read “content scraping” and “link”.
What a lonk head!
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Unfortunately, that’s an independent blog using wordpress software and there is nothing wordpress.com can do.
There are many, many threads here about this — it happens routinely to some of us — so if you search on splog, scraper, theft, copyright you should come up with something helpful, even though the search function’s a bit wonky. I only glanced at the other blog and didn’t see an obvious contact form, but leaving a comment on the stolen post and asking for its removal, could be a start.
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Hi mariacristina,
Blog scrapers are a pain! Ellaella is right, there are many threads on it if you search the forums; some have detailed pointers about some things you can do.
I visited the link you provided and noticed how that particular blog seems to post multiple, multiple times a day, with what seems like many contributors… at least that’s how it looks on first glance. Knowing your poem was scraped, and noticing that your name is actually posted as the contributor, it seems that the person who owns this blog is scraping in a different way than most blog scrapers. Most scrapers tend to just post your complete post with no credit at all… or start out with a link credit to where they stole it from and then post a paragraph or two with a ‘more’ link. What they get then, is the traffic generated by your title. A third type of stealing is when someone sees you’ve done well with a post so decides to write a post on the same topic… but use your title, therefore getting themselves on the google trends page listing for that subject only ahead of yours because with both titles the same, their more recent listing (since it was copied from you) will get a higher listing. That happened to me and I went to the blog and told her what she was doing was wrong even though she technically wrote her own post.
A suggestion I have, then, based on how this blog is scraping in a non-typical fashion… is that you go to godaddy (or any other domain name registrar) and do a search as if you want to buy that domain. You will get a notice that it is taken but will get a link to click to see who has it. I did it but wasn’t sure if I’d violate something by posting the results in the forum here. That domain is a .cn domain and godaddy couldn’t give me the standard registration results because it wasn’t registered through them, but it did give me the underlying registry results, which listed an email contact. Why don’t you try to email the domain name owner and explain that your posted copyright requirements do not allow her to take your poem and post it, even if she did post it as if it was posted by you. Tell her you would like it removed. Save a copy of that email and any response you may get.
If she doesn’t comply, you will be a step ahead if you need to go the full route of reporting her (via the methods you will find in the earlier mentioned threads here in this forum) because you’ll have already done the “ask for compliance” thing with her.
Good luck, and keep us up to date on what happens! Feel free to head over to my blog and search for blog scrapers in the search box. You’ll find posts there where you can join in the venting with several more of us.
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Hi feartheseeds aka saltedlithium! I’m so glad you’re keeping that up. I know I got all fired up and created that UASS (United Against Splogs and Scrapers) petition but I honestly knew I had too many things on my plate to do a proper job of that so I was pleased to see you decided to keep that ball rolling. Do you want to take over that petition since it’s registered at the Petition Site? It already has the name and I haven’t done all that much with it. I can check if they allow that.
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You guys are awesome. Thanks for your help. I will follow up on these suggestions.
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OMG I dunno how to offer you any help apart from bite em! But wow you made me laugh with your ‘lonk’ LOL
Lonk Head, I’ve gotta use that one! -
Hi again. I’ve just been scraped by this blogger. My post today was copied within minutes of it going up on my blog.
I’ve done some homework now, so that I can deal with this blogger since it seems to be partuclarly offensive to everyone that runs across it. This blog is set up to display the stolen post as though the original author is a contributor to the scraper blog. I’m sharing some homework here so others can benefit.
The address for my scraped post is: http://www.famlove.cn/?p=26741
So far, I have left a comment demanding removal of my post, and screen-capped it while it’s held in moderation. I then ran a search on famlove.cn. The link to that information for anyone else who needs it is this: http://samspade.org/whois/famlove.cn Then, I searched the IP address and got this information: http://samspade.org/whois/72.167.131.51.
Anyone who wants to help in dealing with this blogger, may use those links to obtain the email addresses to report this blog. The more, the better. I will be doing so next.
I thought I should share that info and make it easier on anyone else who gets scraped by this blog.
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My goodness, fracas, that’s blatant! And the whole front page is full of scraped posts just from today.
Your comment will probably remain in moderation forever, but the screenshot’s a good idea. I’ve done that in your situation too, if only to CMA.
I hope you win this one. Grrrr!
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Instructions for making a complaint about that scraper are now listed on stolen.wordpress.com:
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Thanks for that tellyworth.
After reading at stolen.wordpress.com I googled famlove.cn and found the stolen.wordpress.com result up on the front page. That inspired me to write a blog post with famlove.cn prominently placed so it too would come up. If more people do that, at least when others google famlove, they’ll realize it’s a scumblog.
Sometimes the internet makes me happy.
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