Help! Someone Stole My Content!

Plagiarism and copyright violations are bad things. Alas, the structure of the Internet makes them very easy things to do. Just copy some text off of one web site and paste it onto another as your own, original work. Nine times out of 10, no one's the wiser, right?

Not so fast, bucko. I've been on the losing side of content theft more times than I can count, and dealing with people who've stolen your hard work is no picnic. In the past I've simply jotted off angry letters demanding they remove my work from their site or else, but typically these letters are ignored and I forget about the whole affair.

No more!

Lorelle VanFossen offers an in-depth and insightful how-to on dealing with copyright theft and plagiarism, providing step by step advice on what to say and who to say it to. It doesn't require filing lawsuits and it doesn't cost a lot of money. It does take patience and common sense, though. Her post is something that every worker who generates original content should bookmark today.

The article is weak on one issue, though, and that's using the DMCA to get a web host to remove content when the site owner is non-responsive. Check out Plagiarism Today's posting on DMCA notices if you find you have to push the issue.