Carl Vancil, an About.com PC Support guide, has copied a story on Windows Validation from this website word by word without giving any credit. They haven't replied to any of my emails as well.Original Story on Digital Inspiration
Copied Content on About.com
Never expected this kind of a thing from a reputed website like About.com ? I don't mind people linking to my blog or copying text from here but a link would be nice.
Michelle Meyers is pointing to a good comment on a Slashdot story on Blog Plagiarism
For a blogger to get copied without recognition, I can understand the anger. A newspaper stole their information! So what. The newspaper is dead. All a blogger has to do is mention who is quoted them (verbatim in some cases) and use it to build their following.
Mike Stall has a golden rule for bloggers and other online media:
If you copy somebody else's blog entry verbatim, credit the original author and link back to the original post.Guido Fawkes even conducted a Press Plagiarist of the Year contest. Stories that qualified for the award had to "be pinched from an original blog source, either verbatim or in essence, and no credit/payment given to the original source."
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/12/aboutcom-and-blog-plagiarism.html
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Reader Comments
You might want to look into a service like Creative Commons or CopyScape to help prevent copyright infringement. It's possible About.com could of automatically scraped the content from your site.
You might also do a WHOIS on their domain and give them a call.
Written on 16/12/05 8:36 AM
I think copying things from other people without linking back is steal their work !! And no one would want their work to be stolen, do they?
I think they have to pay for what they've done. How? Well, a letter saying sorry would be nice. And also, linking back everything they take from another websites too.
I hope you like my comment ;) It's my more sincere opinion.
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