Re-posting without Permission
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Hello,
I am new to WordPress and desperately flipping through my Dummies book at this moment. I posted my 5th post earlier today. Now I see my posts on another blog with the word ‘wine’ inserted here and there This is the offending blog:
This post is a copyrighted excerpt from on of my publishing houses books. I am the publisher.
Is there some button or other that I needed to press to indicate to people that they can’t take and alter my posts? Did I accidently give permission for this to be used? I know theft happens, but I want to be sure that I did not make a mistake before I get as irritated as I would like to be. I don’t feel my author will appreciate his excerpt being used to push vino. I don’t appreciate the work being taken &/or altered.
Thanks for any input,
Newbie Nola
http://volunteerb4udie.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Follow the instructions on unauthorized blog content theft in this thread:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/re-posting-from-another-wordpress-blog?replies=10
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No. Explicit written permission in advance of publication is the legal requirement and content theft is rampant. The blogopshere is full of nefarious folks who scrape blog content and place it on splogs where they use it to make money from advertising. A copyright not as copyright belongs to the creator.
That’s a slpog and it’s not hosted by worpress.com. It’s a wordpress.ORG install being hosted by go-daddy and you will have to send a formal DMCA complaint to go-daddy to get all your content removed.
Instructions > http://ismyblogworking.com/www.1wine.us
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Sorry – forgot to clear my browser . Instructions link here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
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Thanks so much, now I’ll get irritated with them instead of myself. I appreciate the advice..
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@volunteerb4udie might help to check out this site as well.
http://license.icopyright.net/creator/home.act
Sometimes just seeing that a site has a copyright is enough to deter some people.
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@volunteerb4udie
There are three different choices we can make for posting notices of our copyright. You will find they each have different features.Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved.
MyFreeCopyright.com – protection for Literary Works Visual Arts Performing Arts Sound Recordings. Every digital file has a unique makeup of bits and bytes which is its fingerprint. MyFreeCopyright captures your original creation’s fingerprint, stores the fingerprint in a database and sends a copy of the fingerprint to you in an email. The email contains the verified date; the fingerprint verifies the digital creation, and your email address verifies it belongs to you. (NOTE: You must keep the email with this fingerprint. This email is your date registered copyright proof and protection for your copyright.)
creators.icopyright.com – protection for Literary Works Visual Arts Performing Arts Sound Recordings. Wherever your content goes, your personalized ©reator tag goes with it, communicating that the content belongs to you.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/10/07/how-to-copyright-your-digital-works/
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There is also good information here: http://stolen.wordpress.com/ .
I’ve fought blog scrapers for years, and in the majority of cases I have had to go directly to their web host with my complaint since seldom will the blog take the posts down by request, and few of them will even have a contact page.
To get information on their web host and on who the owner is, you have to do a “who is” search. I typically use network solutions for my research, http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp , but there are others out there as well.
Some ISP’s will take sites down with just an email that includes links to the stolen material, and to your original content on your blog. Some require a full DMCA submission either faxed to them or by email. Only a few have required me to send it via mail with my signature.
Generally if there is no doubt about the material being stolen, the ISP’s will act promptly since they are required to by law.
Of course, scrapers that are not hosted in the US are another issue, but I’ve even had reasonable luck with them as long as they aren’t from Russia or China, they don’t seem to care.
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