Sites hosted on Google’s own blogger platform are probably the worst offenders when it comes to content plagiarism.
Some may say that WordPress, Tumblr and a dozen other services also offer free blogs but Blogger seems to be the most preferred choice for creating splogs as there are people who have this impression that Google favors blogspot.com blogs is search results.
There could be other reasons as well but if you ever discover a blogspot blog copying content from your website without attribution, you can file a DMCA complaint to Google and they will comply (read my experience) but this process can be a bit tedious as Google would only accept DMCA takedown notices that are sent via fax or snail mail.
Well, not anymore. If you don’t have a fax machine and aren’t inclined to spend money on a web based fax service, here’s some good news. Google has dropped the fax or mail requirement for Blogger and you can now submit DMCA complaints to Google online via an online form.
This “facility” is available only for filing DMCA notices against Blogger blogs but you’ll still have to take the fax or paper mail approach for reporting copyright infringement on other Google sites like Google Base, Orkut, AdSense and so on. Hat tip Nikhil Pahwa.
Related: Detect Plagiarism of RSS Feeds
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/filing-dmca-complaint-to-google/8185/
Tags: Archives, blogger, dmca, plagiarism, Internet
Reader Comments
That’s good news from Google, hoping they extend it to its other services too. Hopefully the web will be more or less free of plagiarism in the future.
Written by Hirvesh on 04.13.09
Nice illustration ;)
:D
Written by Shankar Ganesh on 04.13.09
This is really good news for hard working bloggers who spend so much of their time in making a quality post for their readers only to find others copying it and without accepting its source.
I personally prefer that Google do some punishment for those sites not hosted on Blogger by giving them some penalty in Search results or something like that.By this way atleast content plagiarism can be stopped.
BTW, nice info.
Written by VishTecho on 04.13.09
That’s you kid, is it? :) Cute!
Written by Ankur Banerjee on 04.13.09
Thanks for writing about this topic. How long do they take to do that anybody have any idea? may be 2-3weeks or 2-3months
Written by Aditya on 04.13.09
Your son is too cute :) You are blessed!
Written by Eric on 04.13.09
This is a great information for hard working bloggers like me who really strive hard just to produce quality contents! I’ve seen a lot of automatic blogging blogs who just steals content from other blogs. I just don’t know how can they earn from those blogs. Hopefully, those blogs will get de-indexed by Google.
Written by Millionaire Acts on 04.14.09
That is a bad news really. How long do you think it will take for someone to write a little bot to take off legitimate blogs using this zero-friction mechanism?
Had I been blogging with Blogger, I would have been very concerned about this. I also despise those spammers and copiers but I think that a mere anonymous form entry as a way to take down a blog is bad.
Google can easily known who is the originator – they have the tools and the data. If they were to use those tools to make sure they don’t just take out the good blogs, I would me less concerned.
Written by cyclop on 04.14.09
Nice pice !
Copy paste is for content .. if u did that for humans .. its called Cloning :D
Cute Kid
Written by Varun on 04.14.09
Thanks to ggle for making it easy.
We strive to write good copy and when we find it’s used without permission, it really hurts :(
Written by Artists on 04.21.09
Very informative post, thanks a lot amit. This thing has happened to me many times. May be i would have to use this soon in the future.
Written by Shahab Khan on 04.24.09