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Copyscape is a great service and is there for a long time. But this is not an entirely free service. For a particular URL, in a month there can be only five searches with Copyscape. Also, only one page of search results can be seen with it. For more freedom and offline content copy alert, you need premium service. Here we have a better plagiarism catching service, Copy Alerts [Important Update (dtd: 18, May, 2009): Copy Alerts service is no longer active. It's only an ad-filled page now] . I have been using this for some time and find it very useful. You can set up a copy alert within this for your blog or for any important page in it. If anyone copies the content and puts in the public domain (accessible to all), the Copy Alerts automatically sends an email to our inbox. Setting up a Copy Alert is so easy. It doesn't even require you to sign up an account. You only need to go to the site, and put in the URL you want to be alerted about and your email address. If you put...

Intellectual property theft, known as Plagiarism is a great threat to all people, especially the Internet entrepreneurs like us. When a blogger becomes popular, this threat is at its peak. Most or all of the articles he produces daily get copied, and the copyists enjoy good content. This is now a great trouble for popular bloggers out there. (Here is what Darren Rowse of Problogger wrote about this issue. Here is another article from Problogger .) Google and other search engines rank the copying websites low, and may penalize them. So, it is not only ill-advised to copy others’ content, but also very dangerous. So, I would suggest all bloggers to be careful, and not copy content from A-list bloggers out there. Introduction to Copyright Copyright is a universal enforcement to protect the intellectual property rights of content creators. It means “The right to copy.” Only the original creator of the work gets the right to copy the work anywhere else (that is, unless he s...

This is a situation with many pro-bloggers. When they post a highly valuable, linkable, original content with useful information, within a week’s time, the same article will be reproduced in half a dozen different blogs and article directories worldwide, without any knowledge of the original creator. This is the theft of intellectual property, we know as plagiarism. One of the greatest crimes out there. And for me, theft of intellectual property is more despicable a crime than that of tangible goods. Though in blogosphere, plagiarism is booming like anything, it is in academia and publishing industry that it is most felt and most despised. The blogs, which copy content from bigger bloggers out there, are mainly smaller blogs, which may not have even been indexed by search engines. They may read somewhere that “the content is king.” They mayn’t have enough language skills or knowledge to create that content. So, what they do as soon as they set up a new blog is going out in search ...

We, the common people, writers of the Internet, and mostly unpublished, look ardently at those great top authors of best-sellers, and just drool when we see their copyright notices . Copyright © Stephen King 2008 , all rights reserved! Wow, we think, when do we actually see such a page in action with our name in it? In the meanwhile, there is another question looming in the horizon, particularly for the people like us, who publish online profusely, but most of the time get our content stolen , taken up by amateurs, who just happen to view the power and reach of the professional content, and just copy and use it in their websites (I regard intellectual property theft or plagiarism as more severe and despicable than murder). We have to protect our hard work (by copyrighting) ; we have to find some ways to get it copyrighted, so we can claim our work as our own whenever we want. How? Well, that’s actually pretty easy. You should know that copyright is a natural attribute that exis...