How I can report duplicates of my content to Google?

[arin2u]

Is there any way to report duplicate content to Google? Some of the websites are putting exact content as mine on their pages without giving me any credit.
I've mailed them to remove it. They assured me for removal. But still I see the content live on their pages. Can I take any legal action?

[tedster]

You're talking about stolen content - content that is your legal property. There is a US law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act or DMCA. Google's information page about it is here:
[google.com...]

Also, in the Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com] which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page, we have a very informative thread about steps you can take when someone steals your content:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[Tonearm]

Does anyone have a method for being alerted to stolen content?

[Chrispcritters]

You'll also want to file a DMCA complaint with their host.

[jakegotmail]

If your worried, you could set up an alert in google with a sentence in quotation marks.

So if that content gets indexed, you will get an email from G, stating they found another page in their index with that content.

[Tonearm]

jakegotmail,

Not a bad idea. Does anyone use Google Alerts to monitor duplicate content in this way? A comprehensive setup would mean adding alerts for every product description and category description.

[arin2u]

Thanks for all your suggestions and the trick from jakegotmail. They did a crap and not responding. I contacted both but all the efforts gone in vain. Then what I did was I changed the content of my page completely. I hope it work out well for me :) as I moved 2 step forward to no7 in google ranking with a keyword. Now I need to check if my visitors are satisfied with the info.

But it is really a serious issue if google considers duplicate contents bad. How many times we change those? Are they able to check the original content and how they do that?