Posted on 11 April 2011. Tags: agent, Arts, editor, Freelancer, Fridays, Laura Spencer, Literary agent, Nathan Bransford, Publishing, Twitter
By Angela Atkinson Nerd alert! This column is usually posted on Fridays, but last Friday, I was busy filling in for one of the local editors over at Patch.com. I had a blast, being the nerd that I am, and I’m looking forward to filling in for other Patch editors in my area as they [...]
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Posted on 28 February 2011. Tags: blog, BLOGGER, content theft, content thieves, Freelancer, Google, RSS, scrapers, Scribe, Syndication and Feeds, Tools, Web search engine, Wordpress, Writing
If someone wants to steal your content badly enough, they will do it, no matter what sort of protection you put in place. Still, if you take certain precautions you can protect yourself and your content to an extent by seriously discouraging and helping to expose the typical content thief. So what can you do to help protect your content from cyber-theft and expose content thieves on their own sites?
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Posted in copyright issues, DCMA laws, freelance writing, protect yourself from content thieves, websites, what to do when someone steals your blog content, Writing business
Posted on 21 February 2011. Tags: Brad Templeton, Copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, European Union, Google, Google Alerts, Intellectual property, mailbag, RSS, Website
Dear WM Freelance Writers Connection,
I recently had the misfortune of discovering my copyrighted content was being used on another website. This is not the first time I have seen content of mine appear on another site but it was the reaction that my communication to the site owner had that really burned me.
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Posted in Angela Atkinson, business relationships, copyright issues, DCMA laws, Digital Copyright Millenium Act of 1998, protect yourself from content thieves, web copywriting, websites, what to do when someone steals your blog content