How To Find Your Content On-line: A Paralegal Q & A
How To Find Your Content On-line: A Paralegal Q & A
Here's the screen shot to my weekly use of TinEye.com where I can enter my website URLs to upload all the photographs on a page, select which ones I want the program to search for and find out if someone is using my images without my permission. I promised I would explain how I randomly monitor my work and my writers at the ActiveRain.com group Club Chaos so here are some Paralegal/Legal Investigator "how to find info" tips that people who create original content may find useful.
This is part of how I keep track of who swipes pictures of my kids to use on other sites. How do you think I also know who is using images of my artwork without my permission? I bet you'd be surprised at just how much I do know but don't usually tell (LOL). Us Paralegals have our little cyber secrets (LOL). Also, the need for speed keeps us competitive so we practice keeping up with the people, places and things that interest us between freelance assignments (LMAO).
I am very protective of the wee people, my creative content and my bay-bays. I use my kids and my photographs as a test run for everything. I like TinEye.com website because it found my work, is easy to use regarding reverse image searches and I give them a big kudos and congrats for using image identification technology rather than just keywords, metadata and watermarks because that means they can even catch crops and some digital alterations. It is not perfect and their database is constantly updating as people use it so they may not always find your work. However, they do encourage you to check back and keep looking. Also, you can follow TinEye on Twitter and Facebook if you have questions.
I also use Google Images for this purpose too, but if the person renames the photograph's file and metadata info after altering the image (e.g. cropping your name out) it can be harder to find but not impossible. Patient people will find out where their content is going so don't think you can hide if you like to cut and paste.
I habitually use Google Alerts to keep up with my fave writers. I am tracking 70 writers over 5 accounts so yes, there are days I realize your stuff is somewhere else. My question to you guys today is, do you??? It would be nice if you all would start taking an interest in where your stuff is going. Might not care now but down the road it may make a big difference if you are trying to launch a writing career like I am. One of the books is all about my eye candy. Do you think I want to be fighting with people over my images while I am trying to put a gorgeous picture book together? You may not want to make a book based upon your blogs now, but what about later?
Bookmark http://www.TinEye.com
Bookmark http://images.google.com
Bookmark http://www.google.com/alerts
Time to move on to the written word. I am going to quote a paid service that operates for the USA and UK. According to Check For Plagiarism.net "Rising concern over “intellectual property theft” due to cyber-plagiarism, specifically from students, and content writers (bloggers, writers,and other professionals), has attracted a high degree of interest from educational and professional institutes, the world over, to design effective and innovative techniques to curb this dilemma. Universities, colleges, schools and professional concerns are not interested in excuses anymore and penalize offenders using the strictest measures. These can result in the individuals getting fined (upto US$ 250,000) or prosecuted (since plagiarism is now considered a serious crime) or failing or even getting fired from the respective institute."
I have yet to use the paid services of http://www.checkforplagiarism.net but I am aware of a couple of people who like them so I shall add it to my list. Plagiarism Checkers I do like to use include CopyScape and ArticleChecker
Bookmark http://www.copyscape.com
Bookmark http://www.articlechecker.com
Bookmark http://www.checkforplagiarism.net
Is there more? Yeah, but I can't give you all my secrets can I? (LOL) Start using these, especially if you are a group founder or owner of a team blog with people syndicating their work to you. I am not on-line 24 hours a day so it is impossible for me to catch everything. I do try to randomly sample work while I recreational read. So do the Admins and Moderators who are serious about their duties in this community.
My Web Syndication post is in draft form and it is going to be a monster post. Wordy C shall be making an appearance this afternoon so brace yourselves (LOL). ;-)
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