Content Protection – oDesk
Willing to pay $2 for every page with stolen content identified and removed on an ongoing basis.
1. Write up synthesis of strategies and summary checklist
2. Implement
Resource articles
http://www.loriswebs.com/stop-stolen-content.html
http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/26/the-6-steps-to-stop-content-theft/
http://www.famousbloggers.net/content-scrapers-thieves.html
Steps:
1. Identify Offending Sites
Go through the Google Alerts I’ve been collecting to identify sites that are stealing content. You’ll also want to set up your own alerts for “Charlie Cook”, “Charlie Cook marketing”, “Charlie Cook web marketing”, and “Charlie Cook Sales”
Review articles on site to see identify ones by Charlie Cook and which include links
Note all sites and pages found in spreadsheet
2. Contact the Site Owner To Request Removal
Contact the blog or website’s owner and politely ask them to
remove the stolen content. 95% of the time, this has been the only step I’ve needed to take. You can use the Whois Look up form
http://www.domaintools.com to help you find the blog or website’s owner contact information. On the rare occasions when this isn’t successful, move on to the next steps.
=== Sample Email to send
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Subject (name) – Copyright Violation – Remove At Once
Don’t be a thief!
I’ve worked hard to create the content I feature on my site and take content theft very seriously.
Currently you’re stealing content from my site and using it without my permission. Simply put, you’re breaking the law and that isn’t going to help you grow your business.
I’m going to ask you once politely to stop stealing my content and remove it from your site. You are violating copyright law by republishing any content from CharlieCook.net,
MarketingForSuccess.com and the MarketingForSuccess.com/blog without my written permission including content by Charlie Cook and any other authors featured on the site.
Please remove all stolen content at once and contact us within 48 hours or I’ll be forced to contact your website host provider and have your site taken down and contact Google to have it delisted from the search engines.
Please confirm that you have removed the stolen content within 48 hours. Unless I hear from you otherwise I’ll be forced to take draconian action and to have site removed from the Internet prosecute you to the full extent of the law.
Charlie Cook
MarketingForSuccess
End of Sample Email
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3. Identify the Web Site Hosting Company
Domain name “WhoIs” lookups can be performed at the following sites:
http://www.whois.net/
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.betterwhois.com/
http://www.allwhois.com/
http://www.geektools.com/whois.php
Contact the blog or website’s hosting company and file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint. Hosting companies are required by law to shut down the blog or website until the stolen content is removed.
The full text of the DMCA can be viewed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA.
Most reputable hosting companies already have procedures in place for lodging your DMCA complaints with their security or abuse departments.
The key to successfully using this technique is that you will need to prove to the hosting company that you were the first one to publish the content.
A simple and effective way to do this is by using the free Wayback Machine from Archive.org. This technique has worked for me on several occasions when a blog or website owner refused to remove the stolen content on their own.
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Sample Email to send
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Subject: Copyright Violation – Immediate Action Required
Dear GoDaddy,
Please note that the following site
www.xxxx.com
is republishing content from my site without permission in direct violation of copyright law and in hosting this site you are colluding in their illegal behavior. We’ve already attempted to contact the site owner directly without results and are now contacting you to request that this site be removed from your hosting service immediately pending removal of the stolen content.
Note all articles published under the name of Charlie Cook on this site are being used without permission.
We greatly appreciate your cooperation in and look forward to immediate resolution in order to avoid legal action.
Charlie Cook
MarketingForSuccess.com
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And include:
a. The electronic or physical signature of the rights holder in the copyright or the person authorized to act on behalf of that person; identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
B. An identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to permit eNom to locate the material (for example, by providing a URL to the material); or, if applicable, identification of the reference or link to material or activity claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient to permit eNom to locate that reference or link; your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
C. Statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright rights holder, its agent, or the law; and
D. a statement that the information in your notification is accurate and a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you are the rights holder or are authorized to act on the behalf of the rights holder.
5. Contact Google and file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint. In addition to Google giving your site credit for the original content, filing a DMCA complaint may result in Google completely removing a blog or website that is full of stolen content from their index.
6. Go back to offending sites and Google stolen article titles to find other offending sites. Note if they’ve included an active link back, may be valid. Note and have Charlie review.
Budget: $250
Starting On: May 21, 2010
Ending On:
Posted On: May 27, 2010 14:18 UTC
ID: 100858694
Category: Administrative Support > Web Research
Skills: Web Research, English, Persistence
Country: United States
Hours Billed: 0.00
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