Passionate About Plagiarism: How To Fight Back And Fight Plagiarism
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Passionate About Plagiarism: How To Fight Back And Fight Plagiarism

Plagiarism on the internet is a bruised cloud looming on the horizon for many website owners. You may have been a victim. After spending hours creating, polishing and fine-tuning the content on your site, the brutal storm of plagiarism arrives. You discover that someone has lifted that content and published it on the Internet as if it were their own. What can be done to prepare for and finally calm the storm?

5 strategies to defend yourself and combat plagiarism

How do you defend and combat plagiarism? The following strategies will help prepare for and deal with plagiarism storms.

  1. Strengthen – Build a defense by fortifying yourself legally before the storm hits. Get your work officially registered by the US Government Copyright Office. Download the TX form and submit the basic registration fee of $45.00. This will ensure that you have legal protection in case you discover that your work has been plagiarized.
  2. inhibits – Clearly state on your website that your work is legally copyrighted by the US government to inhibit word scrapers. This will act as a sign on a house warning burglars that it is protected by a security alarm.
  3. Guard – Strengthen your defense guard by subscribing to a service that will alert you when someone copies the content of one or more web pages like Copyscape at http://www.copyscape.com. This service will be your security alarm notifying you that your work has been stolen. The company offers free and subscription-based services.
  4. Have a plan – Design a plan to approach the violator when you discover that your content has been stolen. Effective plans include the following:
    1. Contact the offending site using the site’s contact information and politely ask them to remove the copyrighted material.
    2. If there is no response, contact the web hosting company.
    3. If there is no response, send a formal “Cease and Desist” letter by certified mail to the offending website owner or company. Examples of cease and desist letters can be found on the Internet.
    4. If there is still no response from the infringing website owner, you can contact the various search engines to report the copyright infringement. For example, see Google’s policy on responding to alleged copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, at http://www.google.com/dmca.html.
  5. to take action – Comply with your action plan and keep records. If you are having difficulty obtaining contact information for the offending party or web hosting company, investigate a whois database such as CentralOps.net.

A passionate defense against plagiarism is the first step in fighting copyright infringement. A practical default action plan is a proven and effective solution to combat the storm of plagiarism when it hits.

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