How to fight against Plagiarism- Helpful information and tips for the bloggers.

Is your Content or Post has been Copied or Plagiarized.

Here are few helpful information on how to fight against plagiarism and to protect your copyright.

First of all not only plagiarizing is copyright voilation, even copying your content and reproducing with fewer modifications with out the owners permission and not giving due credit to the owner is copyright voilation.

Send a e-mail to the person who copied your content and request them to either remove your content or acknowledge for the same.

If the person removed your content or acknowledge for the same it is well and good. What if they refuse, you can do the following.....

1.According to US law all the content produced are immediately copyrighted to the owner and need not be copyrighted separately.

2.Find the contact details of the website owner using Whois services. 

3.Send a formal Cease and Desist letter.

4.File a notice of Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) infringement with Google or Yahoo to have the offending site removed from their search results.

5.Also contact the web hosting company used by the site and inform them about their customer abuse.

6.If at all, your going to file a lawsuit against the company(website) and owners of the company you can file a law suit under 17 U.S.C Section 101 and under Section 504(c)(2) for the damages.

(Information courtesy Copyscape.com and ehow.com)

Many times my Posts and Contents had been victimized by plagiarists, I had fought against these plagiarists and won with above helpful information. You can click this link for my story against plagiarist.

If you are a victim of plagiarism and need more help, please feel free to drop a e-mail at mythreyi.dilip@gmail.com so i could help you in some way.

My war against Plagiarism- How to fight against Plagiarism.

Recent Update
On 9-June-2011, administrator of the plagiarizing website contacted me requesting to remove my protest post against their website, in turn offered to resolve all the issues.
In his mail, he mentioned that I have placed baseless allegations against them. I responded to him with all the proof of my recipes being copied by them in their website and iphone applications and pointed out that the rude communications started from their side.
In response to this he has apologized and removed my recipes from his Website and iphone applications.


This is certainly a victory for my fight against plagiarists. This should be an encouragement to all. 
Fight against plagiarism !!!


Details about that plagiarising website, screen shots of my recipes being plagiarized in their website, original posts and copied posts links and communications with that plagiarizing website are available. Anyone who wishes to take a peek at it, please feel free to drop a e-mail at mythreyi.dilip@gmail.com for the details.


Earlier Post
How did i found out my recipe had been copied, as always i googled for my unique recipes whether they had been copied by others. And found out that my "Indo-chinese style chilly fish stir fry" recipe, my "Fish bajji" recipe, my "Paneer and peas chettinad chukka" recipe and my "Homestyle Fish curry recipe" had been copied by this website. I had sent a mail to the admin notifying my recipe had been copied by them and requested them to either remove my content or acknowledge me for the same. 
But all i received was a irresponsible and insulting mail from them saying that i cannot legally sue them.


I had spent 2 days browsing their entire site thoroughly and found that many more recipes had been plagiarised from other blogs and sites and reproduced by them. I had notified many bloggers regarding their recipe being copied by this particular website. 


I was not able to get the contact details of this particular website to file DMCA complaint or to file law suit against them. I scrutinized and found that they were registered with domainbyproxy.com. Hence i filed a copyright claim with domainbyproxy.com stating that this particular website had infringed my copyrights. As the domainbyproxy contacted them regarding the copyright violation, now this website has modified my Paneer and peas chukka recipe, Fish curry recipe and Fish Bajji/Fritters recipe. But i have the screen shots to prove that my recipe being copied in this particular website before the administrator had modified them.



If a question rises in your mind- Why do i need to publish my recipes on the blog and why do i need to fight against plagiarists and go through all these hassels?
There are many visitors around the world who are enjoying my recipes, preparing them at home and getting appreciation for the same. I'm very happy to share my knowledge about food and recipes to everyone. Not for the plagiarists who takes me for granted. All i need is, if you enjoy my recipes, feel its worth and want to share the same in your sites ask permission and acknowledge me for the same.



Please do support me to fight against plagiarizing websites


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