I believe the issue is now resolved, but it still warrants sharing!
Today, I had an unpleasant surprise this morning on the train to work. I found out that two websites actually stole my content! This was such a let down since the amount of content that was stolen from me is more than just one article. It’s almost all my articles from December. While I was working on contacting other sites and blogs that got content stolen, a good blogging friend of mine Drakulus wrote this article. And it’s actually a great lesson to learn.
What do you if you come across stolen content? Do you ignore it? Or do you do something about it? What if the stolen content you come across is yours?
WordPress is a great place to publish content of all sorts. Some people like to use it as a diary. While others, like myself, us it to express their love for gaming by reviewing games, writing…
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The Shameful Narcissist Speaks 
Its close but no cigar. Still a few things to take dow..
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Best of luck, man. Nobody deserves to have their hard work stolen by these parasites.
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Thanks. I am so close in being done with it 🙂 I am playing the waiting game now.
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Woo! Good to hear!
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I couldn’t agree more. You put so much into blogging, and then his happens? Way uncool.
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Under international copyright law, whatever you write/create is automatically copyrighted. You just have to prove it’s yours, which is usually easy to do. Stick a copyright widget on your site for a start, that can deter people. It’s bloody illegal to do this, I tells ya!
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Thanks to that law I was able to take so many of these things down. 🙂
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Awesome, the system works! 🤪
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2 to go atm. 😀
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Oh wow. That I did not know! I’ve seen copyright symbols at the bottom of some blogs, but I didn’t know it was automatic. The more you know…
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Well you can pay for additional copyright boosts but, yes, it’s automatic and usually stands for 100+ years or so. Innit.
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Make it a thousand and I’m sold. You can NEVER be too careful. You might come back as a ghost or be reincarnated and then what’ll you do if you’re content is no longer under your copyright???
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No deal.
After copyright expires, copyright is handed over to Elvis Presley. Simple as that.
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But then I’d have to figure out which planet he absconded to!
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It’s gross and we’ve had it happen at various sites I’ve wrote for over the years. We even had one who backdated their post after we called them out on it to say they had posted it first. Thankfully our EIC had taken screens of the offending piece before hand and that shut them down and got them to remove it after we threatened legal action.
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I am doing it myself. I have to say, I learned a lot about copyright law during this process.
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Geez. I’ve heard of it happening to YouTubers. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised it happens at WordPress, too. I’m glad you were able to get your content back. Another thing I’ve heard about is people stealing fanfictions, which I’d have to imagine is really hard to do anything about since fanfictions a shaky status anyway. I think it’s easier to report fan art, since that’s considered more authentic *sigh* Content on your site shouldn’t even be a question that it’s yours. Professional Moron posted something about how if you write something, it’s automatically copyrighted under international laws.
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Luckily, my content isn’t worth stealing! My best defense 😛 It sucks that happened to Neko though 😦
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Uhu, thankfully almost everything has been taken down so far, so I am quite happy with that.
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I’d steal your content if I were less than an honest person XD You’re Dragon Age posts are kinda fire *runs away*
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Dragons are pretty awesome 😀
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I’m secretly a dragon *rawr* :p
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The plagiarists are so dumb that they even copied Neko’s post were he was bashing their site.
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Someone needs to better program those bots.
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