Its really time people realize that if something is on the internet, it doesn’t mean you can just use it as your own.

There are many WordPress Plugins and scripts you can use to include “hidden” text that only appears in feeds, not posts. Many just put a note in their blog posts manually that states something like: “If this content is found on any site other than X, it is in violation of our copyright policy. Please notify us.” Feeds are much abused, and Jonathan Bailey has written much on how to use and control your feeds to protect your copyright. I’ll let him chime in. :D

Do note, that even posting a note and/or copyright policy does not stop content theft. It merely servers as a reminder that everything published belongs to the original author. What they choose to do with the content, and allow use thereof, is up to them, not the reader or user of the content.

I e-mailed Ajay about the copying.
I have e-mailed you in the past.

So the process of getting things taken down are to first notify the site, then their webhost/registrar then what else? Let’s say what if John Doe from johndoe.com copies your work, you msg John Doe and he doesn’t want to do a thing, you contact the webhost/domain registrar for johndoe.com and they don’t want to do a thing?

Is there a way to add a message to the bottom of the RSS feeds saying “This article is from published at and if you are reading this somewhere else then it has been stolen”.

Many spamblogs take the content from the RSS feeds.

As for those who continue to copy my post content, they have been reported and we’re waiting for their site to be penalized. Some times it takes a very long time, other times, seconds.

I’m off to retweet this.

Now, I have seen that your license says I can use your posts as long as I attribute you.

Would it help if you took that out about using your posts?

I personally would take a few sentences (nothing more than a paragraph) then state my opinion on the post/article then link to the article at the bottom in a “to see original post/article” link type.

I wonder what is blogherald’s licensing policy…?