How Digital Millenium Copyright protect against Plagiarism?

Aileen Tecson By Aileen Tecson, 24th Mar 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/q4.9f5cg/
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Plagiarism is a very rampant issues with the access to copy and paste tools. Many blog owner, writers and revenue sharing writer have been affected and it seem out of control because of the internet availability to anyone.

Overview

You write articles to your own blogs and other revenue writing sites. But discover it been copied. The length of time and day spend to makes an articles sometimes becomes stressful. You need to undergo trial and error by checking repetitively any typos and error including spelling and grammar.

Some make it easy by paying a proof reader to correct their error or buy an online grammar corrector. How about if you find out the articles you just written had been copied and the copycat does not even back link to your articles. You may either resolve by filling a Digital millennium Copyright complain to Google or just let it pass by as you could not do any much control in terms of copy and paste method is so easy to do by any unscrupulous individual.

What you need to do to protect your writing against plagiarism?

You may either file a complaint or none. You could also write an email or contact the site where your articles have been copy to take them down.

1. File DMCA complaint

Digital Millennium Copyright is a service provided by Google to its clients and those who have websites. Anyone could file complaints as long as it is your work you believe is being plagiarized. You could make a request to them by mentioning them the URL address of your articles and the suspected site who copy your work. Wait within one weeks up to two weeks if your problem already been resolve. Voila! you could see it already gone.

2. Use Plagiarizer Checker

Is a free program to check any of your part of your articles that have been copied and makes you easy to locate the site that have a copy of your article.

3. Use Copyscape

Is a free program where you check if any part of your articles have been copied and have a comparison.

4. Use Any Online Plagiarism checker program

They are many available tools where it could be a combination of free check even the spelling and grammar. While some give free trial and to own them must purchase the software.

5. Type the sentence of your articles in Google search bar

By typing any part of your content in Google search bar it would show several websites where the full content of your articles had been copied. You could then locate the website and file complaint against the writer by email.

Bottomline

In case the owner of the blog refuse to remove your content then you have an option to contact the main domain owner and send them email asking them to take down your content. In case they both disagree the final option is to file complaint in Digital millennium Copyright. Google team could compare their data and identify the real owner of the content through the date stamp the Google spider crawl your entry and this includes the day it first appear.

Their are many cases where the whole part of an articles are being copied such as the recently publish and sometimes it comes annoying that the one who copy even appear as the one who ranks higher in Google search. That becomes annoying as the suppose revenue are split between the original owner and the plagiarizer and deeply affect the SEO ranking. in case you always become a victim you could seek those procedures or just remain silent. the decision after all lies in your own free will to seek justice or just let them get away from you.

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author avatar foxpete88
24th Mar 2011 (#)

very useful info, thanks aileen.-

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author avatar Emgee
24th Mar 2011 (#)

This is happening to me right now.

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author avatar Rebecca E
24th Mar 2011 (#)

this is so true, In fact DMCA complaints are so important these days.

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author avatar Tranquilpen
29th Mar 2011 (#)

Very scary, Thank you for the information.

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author avatar Aileen Tecson
29th Mar 2011 (#)

hi pete, emgee, rebecca and tranquilpen,
thanks for your time and deeply appreciate all your comments. thanks ;-)

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