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Hello, I wrote a poker article that many are using on their site, however some either deletes my link or disables the link. What can I do about this. Boy this makes me hot. Heaven forbid these thieves leave my link, like its really going to hurt their business. There are several sites that are mis-using the article and a lot of the blogs dont have a way to find out who they are so I can contact them. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I try to do research before I post as I dont think its fair that I come and ask questions without any effort to find the answer myself. I read somewhere else that a good course of action is to contact the company that hosts the site, I have done this for the first thief so if anyone has any other advice it would be appreciated.
I got to thinking how is trying to nail these thieves going to make me money. I guess a little article theft isnt gonna hurt anyone. I think I will focus on more content and networking. I guess I should ask myself before I do anything from now on, ” how is this going to make you money kevin?” I have wasted the whole night looking for these thieves and for what. LOL. Im learning.
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Good thinking – it takes a lot of time to chase these people, and time is money. It couldn’t hurt to email those you can to get them to put the proper link up, tho.
Did you offer the article for free with your link in it or did they just steal it from your site?
I have submitted the article to ezines, article hub, ect.. It was available for redistribution but the article clearly states the following
copyright © 2005-2006 http://www.bonusgeek.com All rights reserved. This article may be freely distributed and published providing no modification are made to the article or its content including the copyright and/or any links contained within. Use of this article constitutes your understanding that you must keep all hyperlinks live and not invisible or disabled so that when clicked it will direct the clicker to the said website.
So it was just a poker article written and submitted to free articles websites for redistribution in hopes to attain some 1-way links.
Just a honest opinion. The article is not free because it has conditions. The terminology “free” is a very vague term this is why the term “open Source” was created. The article should have no conditions if its’ free. greek39
Bonusgeek wrote:So it was just a poker article written and submitted to free articles websites for redistribution in hopes to attain some 1-way links.Well, so much for that method of gaining links.
No, I appreciate the honesty, give it to me straight is the only way in my book. Im just gonna leave it alone and work on getting visitors to my site. Its retarded for me to get consumed with nonsense. Thanks again.
copyright © 2005-2006 http://www.bonusgeek.com All rights reserved. This article may be freely distributed and published providing no modification are made to the article or its content including the copyright and/or any links contained within. Use of this article constitutes your understanding that you must keep all hyperlinks live and not invisible or disabled so that when clicked it will direct the clicker to the said website.
Under these clearly stated terms, you gave permission to use article at no cost. So yes, it is free to use as long as they did not modify the original article. Since the material is copy written by yourself, you do have recourse in which to ask them to put link in or remove the article from their sites. I have been discussing similar thing with my copy write attorney recently, you definitely can go after these people.
The article is not free because it has conditions.
Hi all,
well I think that statement in itself sums up the entire situation. The writer obviously had stated conditions for using the article; it seems fair to me that it still falls under the category of “free” by virtue of the fact that you aren’t paying anything for the use of the article but yes it does come with conditions.
if you look up freeware or for that matter anything free on the net it is more than likely the “hook” you’re gonna encounter for getting that something for free is going to be asking a lot more out of you than to include a link back to the writer’s site; wouldn’t you agree?
so perhaps in a perfect world it might come without any conditions but this is not: and I don’t think the writer was out of line to call it a “free” article while in fact it did come with a minor condition.
and bottom line is 2 wrongs never make a right; so even if the writer was wrong to portray the article as being “free”; I don’t beleive for a second the second party was in the right to not honor the writer’s condition because IMHO not honoring it is the same as plagerism which has been viewed very dimly throughout time for obvious reason.
And I think it is a grave mistake to ever loosen the guide lines that make up what is viewed as plagurism because speaking as someone who does what we do: I know I only stand to lose if that happens.
*please note the above is not to infer that Greek’s view towards plagurism is not one of a responsible view point; but rather I just saw a slippery slope and thought I should speak up.
edited to add:
in answer to your original question of what can you do? it seems to me that you are probably screwed if the article is ever actually read by the plagurist, but in the case of what I’d guess is likely 90% of the time; they are not reading the article they are just changing the links so if I were you I’d write my next articles to include the name of your website without the link in it; so that at least if the article is read by a real person; you are going to get across to them that the article came from your site.
that’s the best you can do IMHO. of course try contacting the hosts etc; but that ends in a “chase ’em as they come” scenario rather than a nice one time solution to prevent this sort of crime in the first place.
heads up kevin:highflyer
I stand corrected if their were terms and conditons for the article then yes, you can act. But to refer to the artcle as being free that its not.
The term “free” is very ambiguous. Does “free” mean no cost? Does it mean “unconditional”. According to jurisprudence ( philosophical study of law). The word “free” can mean many things, such as, not bound or constrained, not under obligation nor necessity.
This conflicts with the idea of casinos offering free money, because we all know it comes with conditions. Therefore, under the Lawyers advice I would suspect this too would be a violation.
The truth is offer something for “free” it should be unbidding, not constrainned, unconditonal, not bound by any conditions.
Just playing around here, something work off that News Years Eve hang over. Greek39
First, copy writing is writing copy–copyright is the legal protection of works.
As to your article, you created it and thus own the copyright. While you gave others permission to utilize, within your terms, that permission can be revoked by you at any time–unless you gave the party a perpetual license under those terms, which you most likely did not.
By not including your link or disabling it, which happens a lot to me, they are violating your copyright.
To start with, you can send a simple email/letter to the offending party and CC a copy to their hosting company. By sending a copy to the host, you have now notified them of an illegal action on their network.
If you don’t get any response, send certified copies of the letter in the mail with RRR (return receipt requested)–this gives you proof of delivery.
The host will most likely take some course of action as not doing so becomes negligence since they were notified.
Should you still receive no action, small-claims court is the next course of action. If the article was registered with the U.S. copyright office, you can sue them for “copyright infringement”.
Seek out an IP lawyer if the matter escalates and do your homework before doing anything. This post is not legal advice.
