A Simple Way to Protect Images from ‘Casual Copying’

16 aug 2011

Learn about a simple trick that may prevent people from casually copying or even hotlinking to images and photographs hosted on your website.

Find Websites that are Copying your Content

10 nov 2010

Find sites that have either lifted your web content verbatim or have modified it slightly to make it look original. Free tools for checking online plagiarism.

Newspaper Prints Creative Commons Images without Attribution

10 feb 2010

When an image is available under a Creative Commons license, you are allowed to use that image for non-commercial or commercial use (depending on the license) provided you have given proper credit to the owner.

Best Tools to Detect Online Plagiarism

13 sep 2009

“One third of teenagers don’t believe that downloading a paper from the Internet is a serious offense. To them, copying text from a Web site is either a minor offense or it’s not cheating at all.

Filing a DMCA Complaint to Google Gets Easy

13 apr 2009

Is a blogspot blog copying your content or images without permission. You can now file a DMCA complaint to Google via the web asking them to takedown the copied articles.

Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds

09 mar 2009

Fair Share is a free service that helps you detect online plagiarism via RSS feeds. You cannot prevent websites from republishing your content but you can always file a DMCA complaint against them.

Dealing with Content Theft on Blogger vs WordPress

09 oct 2008

If I come across a blog that is republishing content without attribution, I first send a polite email to the blog owner asking him or her to remove the material. This method is extremely effective and works in 99% of the cases.

Fighting Plagiarism on Digg

19 oct 2007

Consider an extended form of plagiarism – You write an article that’s good enough to hit the front page of Digg. But then someone makes a copy of that article on his/her website and submits his own link to Digg.

What to Do When Your Web Content is Stolen

20 aug 2007

Search engines have made it easier for content theft. What should you do when you discover your content or image on another website.

What To Do When Your Blog Content is Copied by Someone Else

29 jul 2007

Copyright Infringement – what options you have when some blog republishes content from your website without attribution, credit or permission. When Someone Copies Your Blog Content ? Scott explains in the video that the first step is to send a friendly email to the violator.