You want to know who steals your copywriting?
By John Rothko
Plagiarism is becoming a big problem. Especially since blogging is now big business, entrepreneurs are driven to post articles nearly on a daily basis and that doesn’t always work out so easy. As a result, some of them resort to “lending” some good content somewhere else. As long as they mention the source or at least give a link back to your site, that is not really a problem. On the contrary, it makes you famous :-)
Unfortunately, not everyone is so courteous to honor that practice and when that happens, you can speak of plagiarism, which is in fact a form of theft.
There is now a convenient service that detects this sort of theft, namely: CopyScape!
What the service basically does is compare text from your site with other sites and display a list of possible perpetrators. Often, those perpetrators are searchengines, just listing your description and then all is well, but once in a while, you will come across a clear case of plagiarism and then you might want to act upon it.
CopyScape has a free service and several levels of subsription. I suggest you have a look at it yourself at http://www.copyscape.com/ Just type in the URL of your site or an article and look at the results.
Don’t get upset if you see loads of links. Most of them will be harmless references to your site or articles.
The Pro subscription will send you and email everytime a suspected plagiarism takes place.
Here is the URL again: http://www.copyscape.com/. Hey, and do me a favor, please let me know what you think about this service. :-)
Author site: John Rothko | View all articles by John Rothko
Topics: Business, Infopreneuring |
December 9th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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