What do I do is someone plagiarized my content?
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Someone on WordPress has copied a post I have made and claimed it as their own. The link to my post is https://kyliewriter.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/emotional-paragraph/. It was made in 2013. The plagiarizer has posted this: https://mahisam.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/who-i-m/comment-page-1/#comment-1. Obviously it is my work, verbatim. The plagiarizer couldn’t even bother to take my links out of it, which link to my work, proving they had just copied and pasted it. Plagiarism is a serious offense, and I would like some course of action to take place if the post isn’t taken down by the time someone from your support team reads this. Thank you.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Here are some other sites which use my content as their own:
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for sites on WordPress.COM while logged in visit the offending page and click on the right side of the “Follow” thing – there is a report blog option – that is a good start – see below for more options – some hosts also have an easy way to report theft – but many bloggers will change a few words and try and put the same content up again – so you might need to check back
Content Theft & Abuse – Logos
http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
http://automattic.com/dmca-notice/
If you’re feeling really mean, this should also help http://drinkscoaster.com/2013/01/02/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback/ (thanks @Raincoaster)
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The good thing about this is he/she left your links in, which will lead others to your actual website, and promote you to those who may never had found you… which is a good thing.
It would have been nice if there was also an attribute with your name and original post.
But having said that, many marketers want others to share their work to get more traction and link juice to their website. Search engines, like Google, see other sites with your links and can give you more of a bump because of it.
Still a little twinge that they didn’t put the link to the original work in there.
So what I would do is place a short line or two in the “Comment Section”, right under that post, stating you are the original author and can see it at this location… “LINK”.
Boom, now you’re covering all aspects, and directing people to your work. Just keep it polite and professional.
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