Blog Content Theft

If you are spending your precious time on writing quality content for your blog, you may wonder if anyone would steal the fruits of your labor. Rest assured, somebody will.

A recent discussion by Lorelle started out like this: “I’ve seen a huge jump in the number of bloggers stunned that they, little blogs on the blogosphere map, are having their content stolen and abused through their feeds. Over and over they say the same thing: “I thought only the top bloggers got their content stolen.”

Some of Lorelle’s main points:

• “The joke about size doesn’t matter applies to blogs. Some splog scrapers don’t care about who you are, what you blog about, or how “big” your blog is. They grab what they can, when they can. And they republish it as theirs or as if they have your permission to republish. They are using and abusing your hard work and making money on it.”
• “(Sploggers) are winning the battle because you don’t care enough about your blog and your writing to check regularly to see if your blog content is stolen. And when you find your blog’s content has been stolen or your copyright abused, they expect you won’t do anything about it (…).”
• More articles from Lorelle on the topic:
  • How To Spot a Splog
  • Reporting Spam Blogs – Splogs
  • Blogs That Look Like Blogs But Ain’t – Splogs
  • One Year Anniversary Review: Splogs – The Dark Side of Blogging
  • The Bitacle Battle of Blogs
  • AntiLeech Splog Stopper: Fighting Back Against Content Thieves
  • What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
  • Finding Stolen Content and Copyright Infringements
  • The Growing Trends in Content Theft: Image Theft, Feed Scraping, and Website Hijacking
  • Copyrights and the Blogger: Protect What is Yours
  • Biggest Copyright Infringement in the World But Nobody Cares Enough