Copyright Violation
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A fellow WordPress site is taking full content from my blog and re-posting it as its own (i.e. no accreditaton of the author or link to the original work). From what I can clearly see, mine is not the only site that this is happening to.
I have copyrighted my work so that it may be re-used freely for non-commercial purposes, so long as it is accredited. As far as I am concerned, this other site is a commercial one (e.g. it accepts advertising) and is not accrediting the work to me. Thus, I feel that my copyright is being violated.
It then has the cheek to put a copyright at the bottom of its page!
Communication via the comments page remain trapped in a “moderation required” holding pen. The site has no other way of allowing communication.
What can I do please?
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You can contact WP support. They’ll usually get back to you fairly quick. I had the same thing happen to me here at WP and contacting the WP blogger didn’t really do anything.
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Hi, Riraito!
From Longmanos’ briefing here, it’s still too vague. But if WordPress does act, it might be on ideological grounds instead of the usual understanding of ‘offence’.
Scope.
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Since the site the blogger mentions has ads, it is likely an independent blog using wordpress software. If so, it’s beyond the reach of anyone at wordpress.com.
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Oh yeah, I missed that part about ads.
If that blogger is not at WP.com, then there’s nothing you can do. You can contact their ISP, but that’ll almost never end up doing anything. That means the site is just a splogger and there’s nothing you can really do about that.
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Hi, Ellaella!
You are very careful with details. :)
Which is why we’d need him to provide more details.
If I am not wrong, some WordPress blogs might be able to pay for Ads.Besides, just because of blog having ads doesn’t necessarily make that copyright issue a commercial one. So it’s best we know more.
Scope.
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Give this a shot… http://exposingsploggers.wordpress.com/
You can find some ways of fighting back against sploggers and blog scrapers here, as well as some links to blogs writing about copyright issues… and if you leave the URL of the site stealing your stuff there may be something we can do later on.
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Thanks guys. Will read into some of the tips at the weekend.
I am more than prepared to name & shame this site to someone who can do something about it. I just do not want to add to their advertising revenue by publicly naming them for rubber-neckers to go see. I am vindictive like that! :-)
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If it’s a self-hosted blog (“powered by wordpress”), only you can do something about it.
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I disagree ellaella… I think with enough people getting together there’s a chance we can do something. Try looking through the “exposing sploggers” site I left above… it’s barely off the ground but it has some decent endorsements already, and an expert in copyright law really likes the idea. The only thing missing right now is splogger URLs and volunteers.
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FYI: not all sites with ads on them are for-profit. All WP.com blogs have Adsense on them from time to time, but most bloggers don’t see it because they’re always signed in. Just because there may be ads there does not mean the blogger is making money.
Which is, of course, an entirely separate issue from violation of posted copyright.
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