Tagged as Politics posts what WordPress feeds to this service….
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Someone who has a wordpress blog is illegally using my content indicating the following:
Copyright Disclaimer
The Tagged as Politics blog is an auto-blog service that promotes “politics” tagged posts. The Tagged as Politics blog does not “visit” blog sites. Nor does the Tagged as Politics blog “copy and paste” blogger content from the blogger’s site onto this site.
Tagged as Politics posts what WordPress feeds to this service as part of the WordPress automated promotion of the blogger’s posts.
Inevitably there are those who are concerned with copyright issues. The Tagged as Politics blog simply promotes what the blogger reports to WordPress as being “Publicly Available ” content. When a blogger is concerned with copyright issues, it is NOT this auto-blog’s responsibility to protect a blogger’s content from public exposure. it is the blogger’s responsibility to ensure that the blogger does not expose the blogger’s own content to the public domain where it can be “picked-up” by search engines and other services, such as -Tagged as Politics.
Things bloggers can do to prevent having their posts promoted by WordPress:
Do not use the term Politics as a tag to specifically avoid having the posts promoted at this and similar sites.
When writing the post, mark the post as “password protected” or “private” in the right sidebar if a blogger does not want a specific post promoted. A blogger can display a copy of the password on the blogger’s site for password protected posts; and, the blogger can personally distribute links of private posts to the blog’s subscribers.
Click the Writing subtab of the Settings tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and remove the auto-promotion services that are listed under the Update Services section if the blogger does not want WordPress to distribute the blogger’s content.
Click the Reading subtab of the Settings tab, change the blog’s syndication feed to Zero (0) if the blogger does not want any post promoted by WordPress.
Click the Reading subtab of the Settings tab, change the blog’s syndication feed to show a Summary instead of the Full Text. if the blogger does want the blog promoted but does not to have the full text publicized.
Create a “subscription-only pay wall ” around the content. There is a financial reason WordPress.com provides a “free” blogging option; WordPress.com must be making money from the blogger’s content somehow in order to maintain the service. If a blogger wants more personal control over the blog’s content, the blogger can buy a premium plan from WordPress, then wrap the blog within a subscription pay-wall.Please Note:
As long as the blogger maintains the symbiotic connection between the Tagged as Politics blog and blogger’s post, this site will ping the blogger’s site to record a “Read ” for the post whenever someone clicks on the article atTagged as Politics.
The Tagged as Politics blog does not retain published content. All posts are unpublished after seven (7) days and purged (deleted) from our system within one (1) week of being unpublished. Beyond the initial boost that the Tagged as Politics blog may give the blogger’s post with the search engines, any long-term interest in the blogger’s content will be directed to the blogger’s site by search engines.
Keep things in perspective: The fully automated Tagged as Politics blog does not know who you are (nor does it care). The fully automated Tagged as Politics blog does not know the name of your Blog (nor does it care). It is the blogger’s personal responsibility to maintain the blogger’s content in a manner suitable to the blogger. But, after the blogger relinquishes that control of the content to the public domain, the blogger cannot be dismayed when the content appears in unexpected places.My copyright notice on my site states: “© Barbara W. Beacham and salmonfishingqueen.wordpress.com, 2007-2014. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. “
I do not want my content used by these folks. What do I do? What can I do?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
We can only recommend that you submit a DMCA takedown request to the hosts of the blog in question. You may want to make sure that the blog is in fact hosted here at WordPress.com and is not a self-hosted WordPress.org site which can be hosted anywhere.
You can check where it is hosted here:
If it is hosted with WordPress.com, the nameservers will be:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
If it is hosted here, please fill out the following form and we will investigate it further!
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At the bottom of the screen on the left hand corner it indicates WordPress: Powered by WordPress. Semicolon Theme by Konstantin Kovshenin. The URL ends in “.net.” And using that website hosting tool it looks like the host would be Unified Layer. So I go to them, correct?
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When I looked at Whois, this is what I see…
Domain Name: SOCIALISTNET.NET
Registry Domain ID: 1760117548_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2014-06-14 10:37:42
Creation Date: 2012-11-17 18:15:50Do I go to godaddy? I am really confused now. I cannot find info on Unified Layer.
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When I look at my own website I see the name of the web host and I click on it. It takes me to their website. When I click on Unified Layer it takes me back to the web hosting search site.
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Sorry that I keep bugging you folks…You mentioned NS1, NS2. For the offending site this shows these servers…
logo
Hosting provider: Unified Layer
WHOIS: Click Here
IP Address: 50.87.163.208
Name Servers:
ns1.socialistnet.com
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Yep, it looks like Unified Layer is the hosting provider in this case. You would want to contact them to submit then DMCA.
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It does indeed look like the Unified Layer site is not currently responding. You can try submitting a DMCA to GoDaddy as their domain registrar, though I do not believe they are required to respond in such a case. You also may want to consider sending a version of your DMCA either via US mail to the physical address which is available for Unified Layer: http://unifiedlayer.com.ipaddress.com/
Or you can try reaching them via phone or email at the same URL.
I’m sorry I can’t be of more help.
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Not a problem at all. I wish there was more that I could have done!
Best of luck to you going forward.
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I need to ask why this website shows “Powered by WordPress” at the bottom of his page? Doesn’t this mean you can handle the infringement?
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No, it doesn’t. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities. We handle sites that are specifically hosted here with us (and it would say WordPress.com in the footer). WordPress.org is a set of software which users can download and install with any hosting company anywhere in the world.
Both forms of WordPress look very similar but their are differences. We have a help article which explains a few of those differences:
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Thank you. Unified Layer’s site never comes up. Calling GoDaddy to complain and will contact the infringer by certified mail. Thanks again!
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