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Announcements => Site & Forum Discussion => Topic started by: kitz on February 20, 2016, 03:22:42 PM
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tariqkhan.co.uk has today been issued with a formal notification of breach of copyright and given 14 days to respond.
The article in dispute is "Increase your ADSL speeds" which is a direct copy of http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm
Objections of unauthorised copy of the original works have been made on the grounds of:
(a) Without having contacted the original author to obtain permission to copy.
(b) Without giving due credit to the original author.
(c) Without crediting the source site of where the information has been copied from.
(d) Without arranging a license for the use of the material.
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In line with site policy to name and shame websites in direct breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Someone asked me in PM how I found such articles and I thought I'd share here too.
I use copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com/). If you look on the main front page you will see that I display the copyscape logo.
There is a free version, but larger sites can also purchase credits which iirc about £6.50 depending on US$ conversion rate at the time.
It is sad that I have to do this, but there have been many large organisations who rip content off and display as their own work. Those that have been around for a while know that I usually do an annual purge. Its surprising some of the people who do copy and who should know better (ISPs and router manufacturers).
I have no objection to parts being reproduced for the benefit of an EU say on forums if they say where it came from. But certainly not trading or business sites taking a page and passing it off as their own work. :/
I have to keep on top of it or there is the possibility that it could be seen by the likes of google that I have been copying 'their content' and the probability that it will harm my own ranking.
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>:(
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I think with people being used to grabbing and using images for their facebooks and twitters I think they forget that an actual real person made the creation.
If they are going to use something then at least credit the creator.
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It would be interesting to contact some of the organisations listed on his portfolio to seek confirmation that he had designed on worked on the projects!
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kitz, why don't you add www.kitz.co.uk into the exif data of the images on the site? most people never bother to check or strip it so it could provide proof that an image has been lifted from your site if necessary.
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Thanks LL - that is a good idea.
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An update on this one.
I'd sent notification via 2 separate means, both so far had been ignored, but I hadnt taken further action as he was still within the 14 days notification period.
This morning however, the whole site has gone. Wasn't me - someone else got there first.
Turns out every single article published was ripped from various other websites.
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A professional leech then >:(
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It would be interesting to contact some of the organisations listed on his portfolio to seek confirmation that he had designed on worked on the projects!
I guess the answer to my question would have been a no!
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Ooops sorry jelv. Missed that one. :-[
Theres still some posts in the discussion thread which I havent responded to yet.
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I wasn't expecting you to respond to my post. It was just having looked at his portfolio I was rather sceptical - looks like I was right!
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He's certainly a cheeky bugger.
Site came back up again some point over the weekend. My content was showing a 404, but it still contained other copyright material.
Looks like someone else served last night for his Raspberry Pi content. It's down again today. ???
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The problem with a lot of these guys now is that they think because it is on the internet anyone can copy it and reproduce it at will. I've had trouble in the past with someone who nicked photos and blurb from my website to put up on Facebook and when challenged he refused point blank to take it down say basically I should have better things to worry about. He found out though that when reported to Facebook they removed it anyway. He is still far too much 'up himself' as can be seen on his Facebook group in question.
Stuart