User Comments

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   3/14/08

   jackpayne

   I syndicate my articles and news releases. The articles carry an "Author's Resource" box at the bottom of each piece, in which name and web site URL are supposed to appear. 50% of my stuff is picked up and published without retribution, sometimes with my name not only removed as author, but somebody else's substituted.

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      3/14/08

      manumartin

      ..and I believe we cannot do anything for that 50%, or can we?
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   3/15/08

   kaybday

   I always contact the site owner if they haven't asked permission. They always take it down once I ask. If that doesn't work, I look up the IP and contact the host. I almost always give permission for people to reprint content. But I expect them to ask me first. best, Kay

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      3/16/08

      webdiggin

      How do you feel about people taking quotes from your posts with appropriate backlinks? New to blogging etiquette here, so I'd appreciate your insights. I blog, I see things in my online travels, and I comment about them. Although it's in the context of my own opinion, I do use the blockquote feature to cite a key paragraph, etc. But there's always a link to the source.
      
      You're speaking about sites that scrape the entire content or anyone who quotes you in general?
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   3/15/08

   manumartin

   you can also ask for credits later..

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   3/16/08

   webdiggin

   Is taking a sentence from your article a faux-pas if you cite the source? Do you need to ask permission before you quote them?

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5. 

   3/16/08

   RecycleCindy

   Personally I don't mind someone using a quote or a partial post of mine as long as they provide a link back to the source or entire post. I have had to contact people that have hotlinked my photos but mainly they were newbies and didn't understand about bandwidth theft and such.

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   3/16/08

   jackpayne

   Oh, yeah, you can approach these uplifters, one-by-one, and call them on their (intentional or inadvertent) theft of your piece. In most cases, yes, they will respond favorably. In my case, however, the plagiarism is too wide spread. I can go to Google Blog Search, type in a simple 2 or 3-word Keyphrase, and up will pop 20 of my past articles lifted without attribution. If I were to travel down this road of selective upbraiding of these people I would get lost in the weeds, underbrush, overgrowth--and swallowed up in a jungle of insurmountable depth.
   
   So, I just leave the whole thing alone, and trudge on.

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7. 

   4/21/09

   radioflyer1980

   Most of the time, people seem to just link back to my entire page. I say "most of the time" because I don't really track down transgressors.
   
   However, as I used to put it, all my writing has been dipped liberally into an ancient Egyptian curse before posting. Use without authorization or attribution is literally taking your life into your hands.

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8. 

   4/21/09

   LGramlich

   I've never had this happen to me, but I once had a regular visitor who's entire blog was comprised of info, articles & comic strips stolen from the internet. I asked him about permissions for such & he wasn't getting any--it was just stolen. As an artist, myself, I can't support that, so I stopped visiting.

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   4/21/09

   jafabrit

   yes, and if it is a pic that is relevant to the blog entry and with a link back I don't mind. When parts (or totally scraped) of posts and images have been used to redirect traffic to their sales or porn site I file complaints immediately.

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10. 

    4/21/09

    Hangingonahyphen

    I have seen one fellow blogger publish my short story without my permission and without even an acknowledgment. I have since stopped communicating with him. If he had asked my permission, I would have readily agreed. I write for the fun of it and I have no illusion that my work is worth fighting for. It's just that I felt betrayed.

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