Comments on: Copyrighting Blog Content 101

By: lax

lax — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:04:29 +0000

if stolen content has links to ur website then no need to worry.
because ur website is getting popular with the stolen post right?
then no issues in that

good post dude.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:10:29 +0000

Hey Jonathan, Thanks for sharing your insight about this topic, it definitely helped! Those “spam” blogs, content scrapers, or whatever you call them are definitely comparable to cockroaches. I am going to check out the 2 free services you’ve recommended and see what I think. Thanks again for stopping by and I hope to see you around the community again ;)

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By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:56:43 +0000

Two things. First it is important to note that these timestamp services do not provide any actual legal benefit beyond copyright non-repudiation. Your work is copyrighted the second it is fixated into a tangible medium of expression and these services do not add anything to that other than proof.

That being said, two services I would recoment are Numly (numly dot com) and MyFreeCopyright (myfreecopyright.com) as they both provide similar services for either free or a drastically reduced price.

The other thing I would recommend is that, with those blogspot blogs, you still report them as spam and, if possible, file a DMCA notice with Google. Those two steps take only a few moments but can actually help Google cleanse its rank and may result in the closure of even more spam blogs.

Spam blogs are like cochroaches, there3 are never just one…

Hope that this helps and thank you for drawing issue to this topic!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:33:27 +0000

Jesse — I’m glad you liked the info! Zen Habits has a very interesting “uncopyright” strategy that I find interesting as well! Thanks for being such an active member in the community :)

cuzzy — It is definitely tough to always be patrollin’ for stolen content! I am not worried about it at the moment, but it is nice to know how to find out if someone has stolen your content and what you should do if you want to take action. Glad you liked the article & thanks for contributing to the community :)

By: cuzzy

cuzzy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:57:06 +0000

This is a hard topic to police out there on the web. Nice write up.