Protecting Your Blog Content Against Theft and Plagiarism

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Protecting Your Blog Content
Against Theft and Plagiarism
Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery when
it comes to intellectual property. Content theft and
plagiarism are rampant, which is the reason you
should take steps to protect your blogs content
against it and not just become another one of its
victim.
To better equip you to tackle content theft you need
to be familiar with the following things:
Knowing your rights as a blogger: As a content
publisher you are the sole owner of all the content
you publish. You have complete authority to
determine how your content can be used, where
can it be used and, most importantly, who can use
it. This concept is the basis for intellectual
property rights.
Creating technical barriers to protect your content:
It is extremely easy to plagiarize content on the
Internet, cut and paste or simply using programs
that grab content are easily available, this is one of
the major reasons for such rampant plagiarizing on
the Internet. To protect your content against theft
you need to make it technically sophisticated for
plagiarizers to steal data from your blog. Some
ways to prevent theft is by disabling the copy-
paste functionality on your blog and watermarking
your images. In WordPress the WordPress Prevent
Copy Paste plugin can protect your text and the No
Right Click Images plugin can help to protect you
graphics. While there is no way to absolutely stop
people from grabbing your content, these two
plugins are a good start, and will make content
thieves leave your stuff alone to find easier
targets.
Copyrighting your work: As mentioned before you
have the complete authority over all the content
created by you. Although it is not required but it is
a good preventative measure to explicitly mention
a copyright like this “© 2000-2013 by Company
Name.” on your blog footer. Copyrights are broadly
classified as:
All rights reserved: This means that without a prior
written consent your content cannot be reproduced
or used.
Creative Common: this is a non-profit organization
that issues free licenses which outline rules to be
kept in mind when sharing or reproducing your
work. On their official site you can read in detail
about the various kinds of licenses, which can be
used to safeguard your content.
Be alerted in case your content is stolen: The first
thing which you need to do to protect your blog’s
content is to be alerted in case your content is re-
published without your consent. A couple of ways
available at your disposal to tackle this problem
are:
Google Alerts: You can base your search query on
your freshly published content and Google Alerts
notifies you as soon as it finds any match in the
future.
Copyscape.com: This online plagiarism detection
service can detect regular and sophisticated
content theft wherein your content is modified from
its original form. You also have the option of
upgrading to a paid membership, which equips you
with more robust content protection tools.
In spite of taking the above-mentioned precautions
there is a possibility that your content can still be
stolen. In case you identify content theft from your
blog you need to immediately take a few steps to
ensure that the stolen content is taken down. The
first thing to do is try to get in touch with the
person responsible for theft and send him a mail
which simply states that your content must be
immediately taken down and also to abstain from
any further infringement upon your intellectual
property. In case the person does not comply with
the request you can take the matter up with their
web service providers, advertisers, and Google.
In extreme cases and based on the country of origin
of the plagiarizer it is possible to go to court over
these kinds of issues, but with the internet being
world wide there many be many jurisdictional
issues, and the expense in time and money often
simply outweigh the benefits of protecting your
intellectual property rights. This is why it is best to
take the simple precautions in the beginning.

Protecting Your Blog Content Against Theft and Plagiarism