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I think RogerD might have an aswer to that?
Tell me, what penalty I might have to pay if found stealing and rewriting others content.
You'll end up with a rubbish website.
Good content is unique content. You need to be a little more creative. Sure, get inspired from someone elses work, but write about the subject matter in your own style and with your own take/angle on it.
That's what attracts visitors and gets them back again, with all their friends.
TJ
it's against the law to copy someones text or site and then change every single word or image
How will someone know if I copied their text, if I change every single word? ;)
Even when wording is changed, copyright suits are still possible. An author sued Spielberg a few years ago over a movie plot - the plaintiff claimed that Spielberg or his writers had lifted many key plot elements from a book he had written on the same topic as a movie. That suit almost certainly wouldn't have been brought, though, had the stakes not been high (and the pockets of the defendant deep!).
You never can tell.
I had faced the problem before. One content writers working prior to me had copied the content exactly the way it was in several of our sites. We were alarmed by the originator and it took us almost a week to detect and wipe out the whole content. It was painstaking but thnx that we were not sued.
See, I have extracted a lot of ideation from others content in past and everybody does that without even realizing it. I've found my content been copy-pasted the way as it was. And it wasn't changed even after giving a proper notification. So there is a jinx.
The whole lawsuit process is too-a-legthy to be taken into practice. In our "small-finance" trade there has to be sophisticated measure to nab this illegal practice. Especially when our trade boundaries are too large to be kept under control.
Please man! I earn by writing for web. It has to be stopped. Do we need to develope a web-community to tap this unwanted practice so as to discourage it? Who'll will volunteer? RogerD first!
However, the last thing the internet needs is rehashed, rewritten content. Research, interview and write your own content. The internet, your website and viewers deserve better.
I'm not certain about what you're asking. It could be:
A) someone where you work uses an application to gather content from the web, the edits (or not)
B) someone is currently hijacking your work, or
C) you have a desire to form a group to combat content hijacking.
I think it's 'C', in which case I would applaud the initiative. But don't we have enough rules already without forming a new group and a new set of rules? It really comes down to each site owner safeguarding their content as well as they can.
On the other hand, it might be a great idea to provide a service for webmasters to 'watch over' thier content and report back if it's been used somewhere else.
