how to handle a blog that stole content from me

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  dansroka · Member · Apr 9, 2007 at 5:57 pm

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  This weekend I noticed that a blog hosted on WordPress.com copied a post I wrote for my own blog, and posted it as if they wrote it themselves. They provided no attribution or credit whatsoever. I tried contacting them, but their blog has no author information or way of contacting them. When I added a comment to the post in question, it was removed a day later. What can I do about this? What is WordPress.com’s policy regarding blogs that infringe copyrights?

  The post on my blog:
  http://blog.danielsroka.com/art/art-is-not-essential.htm

  The blog that copied my post:
  http://artcafe.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/is-art-essential/

  Thanks for the help,
  Dan

  P.S. I host my blog on my own server using WordPress.org’s software, but am posting here because it involves abuse by a wordpress.com blog.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 9, 2007 at 6:22 pm

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  Email to dmca ( at ) automattic ( dot ) com would be best

  For reference: http://automattic.com/dmca/

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  dansroka · Member · Apr 9, 2007 at 6:59 pm

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  Thank you. I went ahead and did that.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 10, 2007 at 3:06 am

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  Going to mark this as resolved since the blog here got ToSed.