Weird DMCA notice

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  jayajha · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 2:14 am

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  I found this DMCA notice forwarded to me today about one of my posts. The complainant is this guy and this is the text of the post. I can’t give the link to my own post, because it has been marked private by wordpress in response to the notice :(

  Now, I am dead sure that this article is my own. This guy has copied it and cleverly marked the date as two days earlier than what mine was. It takes a nutcase to first copy your work and then send a notice back to you! So, I decided to look around a bit. Here are my observations

  1. This guy is an audacious copier. This article on his site is copied from The New York Times. This one from Reuters. I don’t know if he is going around serving notices to all these publications as well.

  2. All his posts have been modified on August 29 (IST). Some links on the top are not even working. It seems like he posted stuff and started sending out notices immediately.

  The option wordpress.com provides me is to send a counter notice which they will forward to this person along with my contact details. Looking at the Indian publications in the blogroll, my guess is that this is somebody sitting in India in reality. Since I am in India, I am seriously apprehensive about giving my contact details to some random guy, especially a disillusioned one like this. What will stop him from stalking me or troubling me otherwise?

  Would WordPress consider the obvious copying by this guy from multiple sources, hence believe me, and give me my post back?

  Regards
  Jaya

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 2:29 am

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  I have flagged this for the staff to help – maybe they will work with you offline on this – I think they will

  One the copy all blog – while logged in you can visit their site and mouse over their name on the upper left side of the top nav. bar – click on Report this content – then probably Spam – then start putting in links to their site and a link to the original article (NY Times etc) – the more links showing copied material the better the blog will be suspended

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 2:32 am

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  They are not a WordPress.COM blog – so scratch some of my suggestions above – maybe sending links to the places they are copying from might do something –

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 2:32 am

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  That’s some good detective work. Sounds like you’re on the right track.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 2:33 am

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  You could always file a DMCA against HIM by sending it to him and also his host. Taking the site down is the sweetest revenge.

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  jackiedana · Member · Aug 29, 2013 at 9:06 pm

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  If you have been contacted by WordPress.com staff about a DMCA notice we’ve received, you are welcome to respond/file a counter notice.

  Digital Millenium Copyright Act – Counter Notice

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  jayajha · Member · Aug 30, 2013 at 2:07 am

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  Thanks a lot everyone.

  Thanks jackiedana. I have filed the counter notice. But it is unnerving that a random, disillusioned guy will now have access to my address and phone number.

  Hail DMCA!!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 30, 2013 at 2:31 am

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  Counterfile, and get his. Mutally assured destruction.

  Some more tips here: http://manolofood.com/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback/ including in the comments. If you follow ALL of these tips, you will probably make him cry.