Plagiarism

[Gigi]

Is there a poor man's copyright for internet content> What would you do, print it out and send it to yourself? Have it notorized? Points to ponder.

[Rohitpatel]

Well I never do anything agianst it because I have not big much site and time to stop them from this.

[berlinlife06]

I haven't experience anything on the net yet, and all my content is written by me. I mean, I have a small blog, and I'm getting more visitors, but I haven't seen anything around that shows me people have copied me yet...

[Rohitpatel]

Well you are very lucky because many lazy people does not write an articles and just make copy paste from our content only.

[berlinlife06]

There should be some kind of registry on the internet for articles, so people could not copy/past so freely! But I guess that would be a gigantic task almost impossible to do, with so much information already available...

[ACCER]

Berlin,
It would be impossible to pull off and even harder to enforce. Look at France, everything written is supposed to be sent to the government. Less that 1/100th of 1/10 actually is!

[ACCER]

Gigi,
Date it when you create it on your computer. It's not hard to copyright it yourself. The US laws on that are very lax.

[Gigi]

Thanks for the info Accer. I dont foresee it as a huge problem on any of my sites, however I will admit that in my earlier day I did steal content before I knew what I was doing. Yes, I was young and stupid and now i am very sorry.

[Rohitpatel]

Well laws are not good in India and othe country too so people easily make copy-paste our content.

[berlinlife06]

I wonder if there is like a "hidden code" that will show up when something is copy/paste, and that will show up later as a proof of who the author was and when was that created... just wishful thinking???