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Would you copy others people blog content into your blog ?
Posted by lfeng0001 • 7/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, traffics
If you had run a blog for 6 month and the traffics is low as 50 - 100 visitors per day. Would you 'Borrow' others people blog content?
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I have run a blog for 5 years with traffic that low or lower.
I have NEVER used content from another source without proper attribution.-
Thanks for your advice, but if I only get the IDEAS from others blog ? Can I ?
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Absolutely not. Unless you got into blogging solely as a money-making endeavor, presumably when you got into blogging you did so because you felt you had something to say.
YOU had something to say.
It's better to try recalling that time and actually put some work into it, rather than steal other peoples' hard work.
Or just bag the whole thing. Because you're not a blogger when you steal content.-
Thank you. I will keep in mind.
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Nope. Stealing content is just dumb. If I find a piece of text that I think would benefit anyone reading my blog, I'll just link to it with proper attribution instead.-
This is what I'm talking about!
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i have to much to say to ever want anyone's content.
now TT on the other hand, she gets all her content from my 3yo genius sister. SHe has her chained to her basement drinking coffee and eating peanuts to stay awake! -
Being as my blog is about my life, no.-
Aw, come on Suzie, we know you're actually an 80 year old man named Chuck, with multiple personality disorder, only pretending to be a witty, much younger female.
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Shhhh...I asked you politely to keep that to yourself. Now I'll have to add you to my collection in my basement freezer.
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Ugh. And I chill easily, too.
I'll bring a sweater.
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It is against the law to borrow others content without asking first. It is the same as taking something from a book and putting it on your blog. When I got the Internet in the 90s, people did everything. They copied pictures and everything else. It was the wild west back then. Now people make money online with blogs and websites. So if you borrow their content, you hurt their income. -
I am stunned you are actually even asking that question.
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me too!
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I'm not sure how I could copy and paste someone else's stories. The ones on my blog are mine. I average about 39 visitors per day. -
@ lfeng0001
- Question: Would you copy others people blog content into your blog ?
Answer: No! I hunt down every blog scraping weasel who steals my content. I send in DMCA complaints to their web hosts to have my content removed from their splogs, which they cover with advertising and pimp out for profit. I then inform everyone I know who the blog scraping weasels are.
Good grief! What part of copyright violations can result in your losing your web hosting, and your membership in social networks did you miss? Don't you read Terms of Service or what?
Copyright basics for bloggers
www.blogcatalog.com/group/new-blog-catalog-users/discuss/entry/copyright-ba...
P.S. If creating content is a problem for you then maybe looking for another way to make an income is a good idea.-
Thanks for your advice! But how we judge that the content is stole? Or perhaps others people get the content and modified it.
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Yes, I would. I would also copy the pictures from photo blogger sites to illustrate them, post illegally-downloaded mp3s to provide the soundtrack, and accompany them with full articles from major magazines and newspapers. I will then capture e-mail addresses and send everyone a link whereat they may give much love to my ads.
I dream of being a complete and utter social outcast and breaking the hold this evil interweb thing has upon me, you see. Alas, I have not yet built up the courage to begin and must write my own posts, for now, and do without any ads or not-so-cleverly-disuised affiliate links at all.-
*ROTFLOL*
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Jajajajaja
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Absolutely not. I have very low traffic on my first blog (in Spanish) and even lower in the English version. I have taken notes from newspapers but I always attribute correctly and a couple of videos I have posted I had permit from the creator. One thing is getting an idea for a post from another blog and another is just stealing the whole thing.
Also, I don't like blogs that are just a collection of articles from other sites, were the "blogger" doesn't even comment on what he/she is posting. -
Only if the other blog says something I really want to say, and says it better than I could -- and then only with proper links and acknowledgement. -
I would ask the person first if the topic is something I wished to cover and I would give them credit. I would never just steal something some one else worked on. -
I like how you put borrow in quotation marks-
Quotations make things that are illegal "legit."
Oh, wait-- no they don't! -
"Borrow" = Get the idea and modified the content
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Modifying content in writing circles isn't precisely the same as writing new content based on the same theme.
Modifying content indicates changing a word here or there. Making the sentence start this way instead of that way. It's editing. It's not necessarily coming up with all new words yourself on the same subject/theme.
If I can look at the two pieces side by side and say there are suspiciously strong similarities, then it's not a new post. It's modified the original post.
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Looking at discussions, or even participating in them, or reading other blogs in your category, can help you get IDEAS, but posting something that is NOT YOURS is not only STUPID (read Timethiefs post), but if you can actually get any satisfaction running a blog that really isn't even yours...then you are definitely in the wrong place! That was a BIG run-on-sentence!! But I liked it! -
Leo Tolstoy is actually alive and bound and gagged in my basement. Only his hands are free so he can write "my" aphorisms for me. -
It not just exactly borrow, but you may get inspiration from people blog and write your own opinion...
its make sense..-
GREAT ELSE WE ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN SELLING BEST SELLERS...
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- In cyberspace, typing in all capital letters is equivalent to SHOUTING into people's faces. Please find the caps lock button on your keyboard and turn it off. If it's not the first letter of the word in a sentence or the first letter of a proper noun then do not capitalize.
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Traffic as "low" as 50-100 visitors per day...........are you kidding me?-
For blogging environment, 50 - 100 visitors is very very low.
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Cathy13, you "stole" the blogging words right out of my mouth... -
Wow, I would love to have 50 visits a day!
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Guys & Gals : Thanks a lot for all your advice and suggestion. Its help me a lot.
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No. It's called plagiarism. I do quote news articles but I write original opinions about those articles. I also source facts with links.
I use a special program for full website screenshots and I have lots of people link to them without actually ever giving me credit. The program cost me and it takes a good deal of time to do these screenshots so it would be nice if people would actually attribute them in the body of their post instead of just helping themselves to my screenshots.
I've also had people rip off my photographs and I can tell you it's not appreciated. -
This discussion has caused me to regress to a past life as a former English teacher. As the writer above says, what you describe is called plagarism. Here is a link to Wikipedia that explains what the term means: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
If you read just the first line on that Wikipedia entry, you will note that ideas "borrowed" are placed in quotation marks. And see that little number thingy at the end of the first sentence? That refers to a footnote at the bottom of the article, which points to the exact source, right down to the very page, where that quote was found. Class dismissed.-
thank you for that information. I use footnotes on my blog all the time and I source everything that isn't original to me.
One of the things my readers comment on is that they appreciate the fact I source everything or make sure I say it is my opinion or speculation. They trust what I post because of it and they keep coming back because of that trust. -
@mountainsage
- You may want to check out my blog post: How to copyright your digital works onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/how-to-copyright-your-digital-works/
See also: CopyGator - Catching duplicate content & plagiarism www.copygator.com/
Copyscape - Search for Website Plagiarism and Duplicate Content Online www.copyscape.com/
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Sorry - didn't understand - I was trying to think why you still don't have an avatar after almost a year on BlogCatalog .. -
Never. I hate copy cats. It's the lowest of low, because in the end you are only cheating yourself, knowing that you got all those hits from someone else's expertise, and not your own. What an empty feeling. -
HELL NO!!!!!!!!! I dont want it done to me so I don't do it to others.
Now, its okay to QUOTE their stuff and LINK BACK to them. However, even this must be qualified--you have to have ORIGINAL commentary to use this or else you're just splogging -
OK - stepping in here --- just to maybe clarify something.
OK...
He said - "GET IDEA" from.
Let's just imagine he meant this:
I went to a website and noted that they were talking about flying cars - and had a link to a website that made the actual flying car... And it made me want to write a story about a kid who bought a FLYING car and all sorts of stuff.
Now... In that example - he DID use information he found from the site that he Visited to CREATE his story or BLOGPOST.
It is NOT stealing, in that case.
To directly take someone else's words, however, is stealing.
To take the same story and just change the names - is stealing.
To write, word for word what someone else has written and put it out as your own work, instead of giving the attributes to the writer - is THEFT.
To copy and paste - is theft.
But for the concept of another website to give you inspiration to write your own story - to write your own thoughts - then NO - it is NOT theft.
If I can find the same stuff somewhere else - on someone else's site - then I don't want to see it on your site - unless you are the original poster.
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OK - Jumping in here --- just to clarify things up.
He said - "GET THE IDEA" from.
Let's just imagine he means this:
I went to a website and noted that they were talking about flying trucks - and had a link to a website that made the actual flying truck... And it made me want to write a story about a kid who bought a FLYING truck and all sorts of stuff.
Now... In that example - he DID use information he acquired from the site that he visited to make his story for Wordpress.
It is NOT stealing, in that case.
To directly take someone else's words, however, is stealing.
To take the same story and just change the names - is stealing.
To write, word for word what someone else has written and put it out as your own work, instead of giving the attributes to the writer - is THEFT.
To copy and paste - is theft.
But for the concept of another website to give you inspiration to write your own story - to write your own thoughts - then NO - it is NOT theft.
If I can find the same stuff somewhere else - on someone else's site - then I don't want to see it on your site - unless you are the original poster.
Comprende Amigos?-
- w00t! Well said.
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I wuuuuuuuuv you...
DB you is SUUUUUCH a brat. -
TT- Thanks.
I don't know what your talking about wager. -
Uh huh...
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Whatever... Go make me a sammich!
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Yes but always referring back to the source (where I got it from)-
@sufisister
- Wake up and smell the coffee!
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/copyright-basics-for-bloggers/
Taking a complete article, without the prior permission of it's creator is a copyright violation. Providing a link back is not a "gift" to the author, who you stole the post from. If you took the whole article then it's theft. DUH ... Why would readers who have read the complete stolen version on your blog click through to the original article on the author's site?
Republishing a BRIEF excerpt, correctly identifying the author of it, and providing a link back to the original post is the correct blogging protocol. That protocol insures you are not violating copyright law, and encourages any reader who wants to read the full post to click the link and visit the original post on its author's site.
Succinctly stated whether or not the author of any original work has posted a copyright notice is irrelevant. It does not change the fact that they hold the copyright to their works and it cannot be re-published unless or until their permission has been given. The only time a complete post can be legally re-published is when prior written permission has been received from the copyright holder. In other words, the same rules that apply to the world of print also apply in cyberspace.
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You're just saying this as a joke, right?! Because really, if you can't think for yourself and write your own content but have to use other bloggers content, it's not really your blog is it!
The only situation I could think of where this would be even remotely tolerable is if your blog is a content aggregator of specific blog types and all your content comes from other peoples blogs. Then as long as you give authorship details and respect the original authors copyright wishes, then perhaps it could be okay. I guess it largely depends on how the original author would feel about it. But considering people can now aggregate their own content, you'd just be using this as an excuse for not writing your own content. Which leads to the question, why bother having a blog at all? Hmmm?
Andy.
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