It’s frustrating when someone copies your original content
Online Copying
The smaller post/article I just wrote about simply making sure you take a customer’s needs first before focusing on your business transaction wasn’t that complicated, nor that original. It also was definitely not an idea so unique to me that I could patent or copyright such a notion. However, it’s still disappointing when someone literally just grabs your content and claims someone else wrote it.
Fortunately for Wordpres templates, you find out when someone refers back to you. This blogger on another site either failed to realize what they were doing (because I don’t know why they would mislead people and then send me the link) or they have some automatic tool that pulls in posts where they simply copy it into their blog & claim it. So, I saw a comment recently (as I have with many comments) due to a pingback & clicked onto it to see where my post was copied into. However, it said that some person by the name of “Kirsten Mason” wrote my post. What?!? the F?!?
Copying blog posts
So, I decided to leave them a comment like this:
“Please do clarify that it was NOT Kirsten Mason who wrote this. I’m the original author and would kindly request this be updated.” Let’s see what happens.
However, if you face this, you should definitely do some of the things that Lorelle on Wordpress tells you what to do like:
- Identify the Source (done)
- Contact the Content Thief (done)
- Cease and Desist Order (will do if necessary)
- Contact Advertisers (thinking about it already)
- Request a Ban from Search Engines (again, will do if necessary)
- Register Your Copyrights: Prevention is Protection (will look into this if the problem gets worse)
And if gets worse, I’ll definitely look into the following resources she provided:
- More Information on Copyright Laws, Intellectual Property Laws, and Content Theft Prevention
- Finding Stolen Content and Copyright Infringements
- The Growing Trends in Content Theft