Creativecommons. Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? Advertisement With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you’ve published online. More than that, you are responsible for comments in your posts. To make sure you fulfill your legal obligations, it’s important to know, what you, as blogger, may or should do; and you have to know, how to achieve this. From the legal point of view, Copyright in Web is often considered as the grey area; as such it’s often misunderstood and violated – mostly simply because bloggers don’t know, what laws they have to abide and what issues they have to consider. That’s time to put facts straight.
You don’t have to read the whole article, you can read a brief overview of the key-points in the beginning of the post. Copyright in the Web: An Overview Copyright applies to the Web.Your work is protected under copyright as soon as it’s created and protected for your lifetime, plus 70 years.Copyright expires. What is Copyright?
Bitacle: A Plan for Action. Everyone is upset about Bitacle. That much is understood. No one likes the fact that they are scraping content, providing only weak attribution and then surrounding it with ads, in violation of both copyright law and (most) Creative Commons Licenses. The noise has produced a lot of attention to the issue, but not a lot or results to date. As of this writing, Bitacle is still scraping content for commercial purposes without permission. Though education and information are well and good, the time has come to act and act in a coordinated manner. However, it will take some work.
What Won’t Work Before we get into what can work, we have to look at what will never work. Legal Threats: Several sites have talked about or threatened legal action against Bitacle. Update: PT reader Maria was very gracious and translated one of mynon-DMCA stock Web host contacts into Spanish (text file). If you look at that list, the situation seems to be pretty hopeless. What Can Work Conclusions. Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges. During the recent Bitacle Battle of Blogs, the Stopbitacle.org was started and Stop Bitacle buttons showed up on blogs all over the web. Unfortunately, stopping bitacle, a splog that scrapes your blog’s feed content without permission, is just the top of the splog ice berg. To scrape the whole ice berg of content theft, I’ve put together some buttons you are free to use to spread the word against content theft.
These buttons, however, don’t work alone. You have to make them work for you. To use these, follow these simple instructions: Display Your Copyright Policy: Make sure your blog’s copyright policy and statement is up-to-date and clearly visible. If your blog is being scraped by a spam blog (splog), until your Cease and Desist complaint gets you a response, put one of these buttons on your posts so they show up in their stolen feeds. Let the world know you will not stand by and let others steal your content and make money with it.
You are free to use these however you like. The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft : The Blog Herald. With spammers and plagiarists becoming more prolific and more aggressive than ever, content theft is no longer a matter of “if”, but “when”. Where once protecting content was the realm of lawyers and billion-dollar industries, it is now important for Webmasters, large and small, to be familiar with both the laws and the tools available for dealing with content theft. Fortunately, the steps for fighting plagiarism are easy to follow and, for the most part, the tools are free and readily available. If you take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the process and technology, you can become a champion plagiarism fighter in short order and get back to the business of running your site before you realize how effective you’ve become. Step One: Detection The Internet is vast and detecting content theft can feel like a needle in a haystack.
Fortunately, we have tools that are designed to wade through the Web and find exactly what we’re looking for. Step Two: Preserving the Evidence Conclusions. Plagiarism Today - Making the Switch... Content theft and RSS scraping is not going away. As more and more spammers get into the game and the tools they use improve in effectiveness, the problem is only going to get worse. Because of this, RSS feeds are going to remain vulnerable and bloggers will continue to seek out ways to protect them. However, readers have come to expect and demand full RSS feeds.
Some will not subscribe to partial feeds and no one seems to prefer them. It seems that the only justification left for using partial feeds is to reduce the prevalence and impact of content theft. Still, many are beginning to take a new look at the partial vs. full feed debate and some who have switched their feed over to partial are thinking about changing it back or making it full for the first time.
All you have to do is take a few simple precautions. WordPress Users AntiLeech: Reviews of AntiLeech range from “better than nothing” to “walks on water”. Free Service Users Conclusions. WP - ©Feed (Plugin) If you want the information in english - please have a look on this this page. Das Plugin RSSImport, welches ich vor einiger Zeit schrieb, sorgte leider bei einigen Leuten dafür, dass sie fremden Content auf ihren Blog holten, was an sich nicht verkehrt ist, wenn der Autor damit einverstanden ist und ein Hinweis zum Urheber hinterlegt ist.
Mehr Hinweise dazu gibt es im Artikel Regeln beim Einbinden fremder RSS-Feeds. Leider sind nicht alle Websitenbetreiber dieser Auffassung und versuchen ihre Website mit fremden Inhalt aufzuwerten. Um den Feed deines Blogs eine Copyright-Nachricht und einen eindeutigen Schlüssel, einen digitalen Fingerabdruck, hinzuzufügen kann man die Core-Dateien von WP bearbeiten oder man nutzt dieses Plugin hier. Das Plugin fügt nach jedem Artikel den ©-Hinweis ein. Anforderungen: ©Feed arbeitet mit WP 1.5 und höher, getestet bis 2.6. Screenshot der Einstellungen: Was macht das Plugin? Das Plugin fügt Inhalt zum Feed hinzu. Installation: Anwendung: Problem-Hinweis: Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyrig.