It’s nice to know that there are services that can let you know if someone is plaigarising your articles, your content. I happened to have found a site who had unknowingly carried a short article on Caribbean social networks. A quick look told me that the writer clearly read and snatched words, phrases, sentences and information from my article Which Caribbean social network will be number one? I tapped the site owner on the shoulder and he used CopyScape, the Duplication Content Detection Software to double check and BAM! the “writer” was caught red handed and the article was removed. It’s a pity that there are still people who would rather snatch than create their own, but, there’s now copyscape.com to our rescue.
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THIS IS GREAT NEWS !!
It’s great to know that this tool is available. However, in many instances contacting the entity/person that plagiarized your work is useless as they may not care. For example, I had one of my telecom analysis plagiarized and included into a report commissioned by a Caribbean regulator (not from Jamaica) to a Canadian consultancy. I contacted the consultancy and they decided to ignore me and the regulator told me that it was unfortunate that it happened but they were not going to do anything either. Why not sue? After analyzing how much I would get vs how much I would have to spend it wasn’t worth it… End result: I stopped my Caribbean telecom blog.
Wow Jose, I didn’t know that was the reason for you stopping your Caribbean Telecom Blog. *sigh* It is a symptom of the era we live in where some people don’t believe they should pay for information. Such a pity!
Actually, that was the last drop. Prior to that I noticed that a consultancy from London started publishing analysis of the same topics I posted on my Blog. Of course, when I checked the log of visitors I noticed that almost on a daily basis they were checking my page. At the moment I thought that as long as people knew it was my analysis everything would be ok. However, when a regulator doesn’t care that the material he’s paying for is plagiarized then it’s time to pull the plug. I’m still thinking of a way to restart the Blog since there’s a huge need for telecom info in the Caribbean. It just a matter of time for me to start again but with more restrictions.
yes its really nice way to find the duplication of contents ,
You’re lucky you took the time to research it and actually find out.
I hired someone to write articles for me from the Philippines. It seemed like a good idea and I think he a did a good job at first. It caused me to let me guard down…
Then one day I had someone call me out of the blue and ask why I had been sending stolen articles from her site to all these different article directories…
Ooops! Apparently he’d taken lots of content that was very unique to this woman’s site and had submitted it ALL OVER the place… and I don’t think she got much of a response.
I would need to set up this system where maybe they would have to submit a copy of a copyscape report with every submission.
But it’s too bad copyscape only gives ten results before having to pay for their “premium” service.