How To Stop Duplicate Content And Copyright Infringement On Your Website

You may discover your own content posted on other web sites. How did that happen? And is there anything you can do about it? Here are a little quick tips.

Tip 1: Use copyscape to alert you on duplicate content. You need to agree when somebody has stolen your content without your consent. Copyscape is an online tool that will do that for you. They charge a small fee but the tool is very effective in catching duplicate content. The tool scans the web for duplicate copies of your articles. The results are then sent to your email. Based on the email alerts, you may then decide on the next course of action.

Tip 2: Mention copyscape on your web site or blog. You can’t really stop others from copying and pasting your content on other web site without your permission. But you can deter them by stating that you are using Copyscape to protect the content. This has a deterrent effect because whoever wants to copy the content will think twice. After all, somebody is monitoring!

Tip 3: Send a polite email. If you discover that somebody had published your content without your consent, the first thing you should do is to send a polite email to ask the site owner to take down the content. State plainly that you are the rightful owner of the content, and that you do not appreciate the content being published without permission.

Tip 4: Threaten with legal action. A nice warning should always come first. But if that doesn’t work, you may wish to threaten legal action by sending a formal lawyer’s letter. Usually, an email will do the trick. But a little people choose to blatantly ignore warnings. In that case, if you want to protect your copyrights, you should seek legal redress.

Tip 5: Complain to ads companies. Quite often, web sites that steal content use ads to monetize their sites. Far too many of these ads companies respect copyright. So if you are the rightful owner of the content, you can always contact the ad companies to try and get these sites into trouble. If the ad companies revoke their accounts, it’s likely that the sites will go offline. No income for the site means that there is no incentive for the site to be online anymore. A workaround solution, but highly effective.

Tip 6: Take legal action. Not everyone likes to take this route. If you would like to consider suing somebody, do consider the costs and time involved. Does it make economic sense to start a law suit? For instance, if you are running an online news publishing Company, copyrighted content may put you out of business. In this case, perhaps it’s worth considering protecting the rights of your content with legal action.