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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 :: Chris
Travel Writing Copyright Theft Following a thread from the Travelwriters.com forum, I discovered CopyScape, which lets you enter the address of a webpage of your own and then checks to see if other webpages have duplicated the content. I idly put in my Laos: Plain Of Jars article and discovered it's been ripped off wholesale by a tour operator in Vietnam and that a single paragraph has been lifted by a tour operator based here in Bangkok. I've sent a polite cease-and-desist order to the latter to see what happens. This sort of thing really irritates me, not just because of the lack of courtesy of lifting my work without asking permission or providing a back link, but more that I have to waste my time arguing with them when they are irrefutably in the wrong. The Travelwriters' thread explained that Google has a Digital Millennium Copyright Act where it will suspend pages that infringe copyright if properly notified. I have no idea how effective it is in practice, but it's the only real recourse. But chasing copyright infringers at best only means the removal of your work - there's no actual benefit to all the effort expended, unless they offer to pay to use the work, but that is obviously unlikely. Crap. More on copyright infringement: Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia | Open Directory [permalink] | [0 comments]
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