Article theft

[dmgray]

A cusomer just informed me that an piece they just bought for full rights was already used on a blog. I investigated and found 4 other articles of mine being used without permission. I have sent the owner a stern email advising them to remove articles or face DMCA complaint.

There are other posts on there and it may be worth other authors having a look to see if their work has been 'borrowed' without permission. Plus if you check out his profile he has a few other blogs....you may want to check those too!

You can fing the blog here:

http://www.dirjewelry.com

[Celeste Stewart]

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't see any of mine, but I did recognize some titles that may have been CC articles.

Have you guys heard about the Cooks Source story? It's infuriating that the so-called editor considers the Internet "public domain." Hopefully this will wake up the clueless:

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticl ... r_34259373

Wierd link, huh? Hopefully it will take you to the story.

[cosmo]

Internet justice = swift and brutal

[jak]

Now the link to dirjewelry comes up as a 404 error. Is that internet justice too? Unfotunately it means I can't find the other blogs either.

[cosmo]

@Jak

I was referring to the Cooks Source infringement controversy where an internet mob ganged up on the plagiarist.

[jadedragon]

Thanks for pointing out the Cooks Source story Celeste. I spent some time reading about it and then blogging about it. What a great story that is teaching people about copyright infringement.

[dmgray]

Yes the blog appears down but the articles are still in Google's cache. Any idea how to get this removed. Only a customer is hesitant to use an article he bought until he can be assured it is not anywhere else.

The cache of the blog is here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... en&ct=clnk

Sorry for the mammoth link!

Thanks for any help.

[dmgray]

One of the other CC articles stolen by the blog owner is 'Creating User Friendly Website Navigation' by Nessiee.