Copyright Infringement - I Need Advice

Something that every marketer should have in his or her arsenal is a DMCA takedown notice template.

You can send a takedown notice to the ISP of the site that's copying your work, and to Google, and after they've had a chance to provide evidence that the work is rightfully theirs (which, based on my experience, they won't bother to even attempt to do), their listing on Google and the page and maybe even the site will be removed.

If you need a sample letter, PM me with your email and I'll send you the one I use.

Don't sweat the small stuff because if THAT upsets you that much, then you might as well stop now because content gets scraped from websites daily.

Now, I didn't look at your site or the oposing site, but as long as anyone is putting out good content, others are going to come along and scrape it... part of the game.

Now, as far as him being above you in the serps, my guess is that's because your site is new. If you are the original author, your page will outrank him/her in time. For example:

I built a brand new site on Red Widgets. I wrote an article on Red Widgets and submitted it to Ezine. For the first couple weeks, Ezine outranked me. Authority, popularity, etc, etc on their side. With a small bit of time, my site kept climbing and outranked them. It happens.... Try not to fret over the small stuff

Send email to their hosting provider. They will remove it almost certainly.

Sounds to me like your article/content was snagged by an "auto-blogging software"... all these 1-click crap software's that have been hitting Clickbank one after another all operate on 'scraping content' ...supposedly capable of 'spinning it' into readable content, and the end result is gibberish garbage.

When commission ignition hit the market, I was finding my content on several 'auto-blog' sites. I didn't worry too much about it. I was more concerned I didn't want these sites linked back to me, as opposed to the 'unreadable' versions of my work they had posted. I quickly learned that these sites will 'plummet' into the abyss of hell as Google will quickly take notice the content sucks... so my advice, concentrate on getting your content to those who can benefit from it, syndicated, or both.

All the Best,

Art

I believe this is a great idea.............

http:// www. dmca.com

Here's instructions and a sample DMCA

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You can always submit one to Google if the hosts fail to take down. Google often responds to DMCAs by delisting the page or site.

No sure if this was mentioned but put 1 or 2 links pointing back to your site. I believe you can display the links as text with out any color change. This way the guy is passing link juice back to you

another important point is that a copyright only protects your words, not your ideas. so depending on how much "spinning" is done to your content, you may not actually even a legal leg to stand on.

what i am saying is that if a person reads your article, and then in turn re-writes your article in their words, you cant do much about that. the key thing about article spinning is that it is in affect re-writing your content using automated tools.

some spinning software will change the article very little, and you might have some recourse, but sending out letters to people or their web hosts for content that merely resembles content you wrote, is not likely to get you far.

to prove that, you would likely need both a pattern of behavior from the offender stealing lots of your content and a lawyer.

dont get me wrong, i am not saying someone didn't steal your content, or that its not wrong to do so, but if the content you are saying is stolen does not even match content that is on your site, then i think you are fighting an uphill battle.

First of all, your content actually needs ot be copyrighted. I copyright my stuff by putting it once a month in a "book" and submitting.

This happened to me. My work was stolen from someone in Canada. I reported the website to Google and they got de-indexed. I set up Google alerts on each article I write so I can easily find the perps and report them.

This is why I have never swallowed the "syndication" technical argument.

I have several thousand articles written diligently over the years, nearly all of them are raped and pillaged.

I can spend hours looking for even one syndicator that actually keeps my resource box intact.

I understand your content was not for syndication but was simply sitting on your web presence. 99% of syndicators are actually ghouls raping content. The other 1% that actually have good websites with traffic have their own well tested and rightly priced writers and they do not need my article with my invasive resource box and link.

The syndication argument prevalent on this forum merely makes me boggle at what they are talking about. The reality and the technicality definitely do not add up.