Did you like if someone copy your work?

[titaniumhijau]

Just wonder if someone can answer and share their opinion with us. Did you hate someone copy your work or your arcticle, then copy it and make it as their article in their forum or blog? Did you fine with that if its happen to you?

What do you think about this issue guys?

[hwang]

That is stealing if you were to put it in another word. So far, there is no way for us to prevent that. The only thing the owner can do is to put a claim on the article is by looking at the date of posting. The one at the later date is of course the copycat.

[life31]

Yes it does. Its like you work hard and some one else eats the fruit. But this is quit commen now. And mostly the copy business is done by bloggers. Very less of the site owners or webmasters do this.

Now what noticed that people also run automated RSS content generated blogs. They subscribe to your sites RSS and the auto software posts it directly on their blogs.

Its like when you post it on your blog a part of it also gets posted on the subscribers blog.

[ORiN]

I doubt you can find someone who is happy when people copy his work unless the copying craze benefit him somehow. It is always better to be original and unique.

[adriel11]

I personally dislike copyright infringement and plagiarism.I think its illegal and unfair, specially, when the person who steals some one else's content doesn't mention about the original author or give any credit to him/her in any form. Copying is an easy stuff..but it can not make anyone a good publisher or webmaster. Although, copyright infringement is not taken seriously on internet due to its vast and huge network arena..but sooner or later it would be leading to the downgrading of sites using copied content. If someone steals my articles (it has actually happened with me on some forums and blogs),I usually avoid contacting the person, as its never going to be fruitful fighting or arguing with some person over internet. If someone does some serious stealing of my content, I report that site to the advertisers and my lawyer deals with the case (has happened only once with me).

[life31]

On blogs its not at all uncommon and its become a part of it now. Rarely people preffer to develop new contents for blogs. Only a few genuine bloggers would really put their effort into and blog seriously. But rest all is just copy paste. Or use some article spinners ect softwares.

Forums what i have noticed is people buy your articles at the rate of some peanuts and sell it for huge. This is something bad i feel. Every writer should get what he is eligible for. May be some one develops some forum for content management and article writing or may be some other freelance site which would offer some good articles to the webmasters viceversa good price to the writers too.

[adriel11]

You are right life31, even I see many blogs almost daily (some of them are sharing links with me sadly) which use all the copied content and don't even bother to post a single original post. But, they don't think, that they can not earn (if they have monetized their blog) for long using copied content, and if, they want some readership, that too can not cross 20s

[huskies1]

No I would not be ok with someone stealing my articles. One of the big reasons is because I sell original content. If someone steals my work, then my own client no longer has original content. It so happened once that i did blog writing for a client and someone stole my articles and posted them on a blog. I was able to contact the blogging company and since I had proof that these were my articles they removed them and banned the person who reprinted my work.

[titaniumhijau]

Originally Posted by huskies1

No I would not be ok with someone stealing my articles. One of the big reasons is because I sell original content. If someone steals my work, then my own client no longer has original content. It so happened once that i did blog writing for a client and someone stole my articles and posted them on a blog. I was able to contact the blogging company and since I had proof that these were my articles they removed them and banned the person who reprinted my work.

Ehm, if you can do that. Its good. But if i found someone copy my article 100% without edit anything. I will spam his blog everyday until he removed that article from his blog. i arleady did that before many times. So, never did that to me..

[sb123]

Of course it hurt! There are definite rules and Google can ban or punish the site in its own way. But I think it is here to stay now, in spite of all the legal implications attached. It will only stop once all the major international countries come together and protect the copyrights, but it's going to be huge job just proving the originality of the content.

[titaniumhijau]

Originally Posted by sb123

Of course it hurt! There are definite rules and Google can ban or punish the site in its own way. But I think it is here to stay now, in spite of all the legal implications attached. It will only stop once all the major international countries come together and protect the copyrights, but it's going to be huge job just proving the originality of the content.

Yap. Its hard and actually. Too many think Google hate. If you selling your link, google also hate it. About copyright and originality of content, i wonder about that. In my country, that not really important issue because that have no internet law. Its just normal law and many people always take advantages from that. SO far, i believe many people know about that.

Its bad thing right if we only copy and paste?

[Derek]

I will be very angry because the person will escape all the hard work. I think i will tell nicely to avoid a quarrel because it can get emotional.