I am glad that you written a post about copyright theft, as this has just happened to me.

This website http://vandexter.com/seo/why-focus-and-determination-are-keys-to-success-online has stolen my just published article
and they haven’t responded to my complaint.

Funny thing though, the guy is in the same coaching class as me?
Well a product banner gives that away.

Giofranco

I came across your website today and this discussion and it really bothered me. It bothered me so that I’ve not even gotten read what I came here for: Motivation and Self Esteem… What I did was google enom inc. + David Lee and found the below pasted URL.

I don’t know if this is the same person/criminal but it seems very possible indeed. This sort of crime absolutely should be taken seriously and as you can read Cartier got their legal team to take action against one David Lee associated with the above mentioned Enom Inc.

I am also a writer, unfortunately I have never been wise enough use the internet as a means to making a living – what I mean to say is that I wouldn’t where to begin… I’m pretty ignorant as to how it all works. In any case I write for a print – they now place my articles in their online edition (as is their right and property). Now I see my articles all over the place on blogs and other web sites. I should say they do leave my name as the author, but never mention the newspaper that who’s property it is. I get paid very little for those articles and I write them for one newspaper and suddenly they are syndicated all over the place. The newspaper is not bothered by it at all – while I’m am a huge advocate for collaboration as pertains to the betterment of society – It very much bothers me. Recently a friend sent me a link to a blog where the blogger was publishing my articles as his own and that angered me – in that case the paper took action. Anyway I’m rambling about myself sorry! I am so sorry this person STOLE your work. Perhaps WIPO can be of help. All the best to you and I now look forward to checking out your site.

Here is the URL: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2009/d2009-1758.html

Kerry Freyne

I am a small isp from design and development to internet marketing – and let me add that I am a one man show .

ArticlesJust4You.com among many other sites I have is very hard for me to keep maintained. I wish I could run checks against copyscape on each post and pursue questioning if i get a hit…

But I am left with auto approving thousands once per week, then going back and do a database query searching for adult content, words, phrases etc to delete the crap some idiots post.

I’m sorry this happened and i did go delete all posts from this author.
Take care!
Richard

@ Keith – it would be very nice if everybody played by the rules of the game, wouldn’t it? But there are always some who don’t think that all the rules that others abide by even apply to them.

I think the entire premise of PLR has given rise to this sort of thing. In theory, it was probably a good idea for struggling writers to get started but too many people are too lazy, or just don’t care or don’t have any pride. I can detect PLR so easily. In 99% of the cases it is shoddy rubbish that makes virtually no sense. I’d be utterly ashamed to put my name on any of it.

Gary

Good luck sorting this out.

The guy who said you should keep quiet about this obviously doesn’t know you at all. Being quite is not something you do!

Ezine Articles do have an automatic duplicate content checker and if they find a similar article they check the authors name and freeze your account and query it with you if it doesnt match. This happened to me once when I changed a PLR article. Now if I use PLR at all I use a duplicate content checker and make sure it shows 0% duplication.

I know people’s paid ebooks are given on dodgy sites sometimes and it’s not easy to sort out, but this is a much bigger case so I’m sure you’ll get results.

Thanks

Keith

Any updates from Google on this?

It looks like a few more articles sites have taken him down, which is certainly good to hear.

Gary

RE earlier comment : Yes thing are going quite well in the positive direction – managed to get myself back on track with a proper plan and currently have numerous ebooks planned for over the coming year which I will give away for FREE.

So things are going to become quite active. The dormant stalled engine is now back up and running, with one major difference compared to last year.

Rather than going from first gear to fifth gear, I’m going to work through each gears one by one.

Anyway, best wishes and regards
Nigel

Gary