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Content Theft

Few Days back, I had a webmaster stole content from a page of mine located at my East bay real estate section.

Here are some useful information on what I did to have those content removed within 48 hours

1. I whois the domain name to find the owner of site, from info I emailed site owner.

2. Filled contact form, telling them of the content theft. Told them if content not removed within certain time, legal action would be taken against website owner(s)

3. I emailed hosting company, telling them of my situation and what they need to do and that they are also responsible for that.

content was removed within 48 hours of my warning.

BTW I love copyscape - it checks for content theft for you.

Posted by John Nazareno on 07/21/2007 02:07 PM

Comments (2)

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2 Comments on Content Theft

JUL

2007

John, I'm glad to hear that you were successful in getting content removed quickly. If a site owner disregards requests such as yours, the takedown provisions of the DMCA Safe Harbor legislation can be used to get ISPs to block stolen content. There is a formal process that some ISPs may require copyright owners to follow. I've described it in my blog called "What To Do When Your Blog or Graphics are Stolen." There's no arbitrary time limit, so you can't demand 48 hours with any legal authority, since the legislation simply says, "expeditiously." I used the process recently and it actually took about two weeks. It's a great alternative to expensive lawsuits.

AUG

2007

Hi John! I keep hearing about copyscape...I should check it out or at the very least bookmark it. Thanks! :)

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