Yesterday the blogosphere heard about the frustration of blogger Debauchette, who discovered that porn mag Tight had lifted large parts of her writing and passed it off as original.
Today I find I’m in the same boat. Doing a spot of Google rank research for this blog I discovered that some shit site called Radical Left had lifted the entire text of my I Hate The Money Shot article and added the byline “By Max Blunt”. They’ve also lifted a large amount of my post on oring blowjobs and feminist facials.
While they did make a token effort by including a link to the original money short article, I don’t much like having the entire text reposted on another site without my permission and with some plagiarist’s byline added.
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When this happens you just feel really angry and violated. And the thing is, it happens all the time on the web. There’s plenty of unscrupulous bloggers out there who have no concept of copyright at all and will happily scrape whatever text content they can find. I’m used to spam blogs stealing my stuff but this looks like deliberate plagiarism by a human being rather than a bot.
The frustrating thing is that this blog has spent far too long languishing at the bottom of Google’s index for some transgression I’ve yet to discover (and believe me, I’ve tried to fix it). And then you discover that your lovely, search-engine friendly, hand-written text has just been lifted and duplicated.
Ms Naughty is NOT a creative commons blog. Call me old fashioned but I figure that if I spend my time creating something then it’s MINE and you can’t just use it unless you pay me. Or at the very least ask.
I’ve left a comment and sent an email. We’ll see what happens next.
Edit: A bit more Google search reveals this post has also been plagiarised here. And to add that extra kick in the teeth, Google ranks it above MY article. DAMMIT. God knows where else it will fucking turn up. Bastards.
Edit Again: Well, it’s not just me. Seems this Ed Strong arsehole just steals everything. This post steals Tristan Taormino’s column about women loving gay male porn.
It’s always sad to see someone just lifting your content but please don’t equate Creative Commons with that. CC licenses specifically have the Attribution property (BY), which would allow reposting (under certain conditions) but the incorrect byline would void any CC license.
(Also, even with Creative Commons you still own your intellectual property and can sell out to whoever you want for lots of money.)
Thanks for your comment John. I guess I was reacting to a commenter on Debauchette’s blog who wrote “Creative commons” as if that was an excuse. But I will admit, I’ve never really looked into the CC idea. All of my websites and writing are licenced to me.
Based on the website design, it appears that both blogs are owned by the same person. I love how he is trying to defend himself in the comments. But, why give him more traffic by linking?
They are owned by the same guy. I linked to the blogs as proof that he’s done what he’s done. Seems the Radical Left one has been removed. His response of “but I give you traffic” is not good enough. Thanks to his post, I’ve lost ranking in Google. And it just shits me that this guy is exceeding fair use principles in the extreme in order to fill his blog with posts. Grrr.
I am disgusted by plagiarism also. I post a copyright on every article I write. I offer people the right to publish any of my original writings as long as they ask permission.
I have lots of articles that I’ve asked permission to copy. I’ve been turned down many times also. When I get turned down, I respect the authority, if it is something I truly want my reader’s to see, I will just post a link to the article.
It takes a lot of time to write quality content for a website. And to have it ripped off by some lowlife just disgusts me. I’m almost afraid to do a search for some of my stuff.