Comments on: Rude Surprise: “Everyone’s” blog duplicated at ClipClip.org

By: glitter

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By: lucia

lucia — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:13:14 +0000

@bharadwaj: Thanks. Yes, clipclip.org basically provides a service that makes it easy to copy stuff illegally, and in fact, without knowing quite how much they are copying. So, the person who copied (Maurice) didn’t intend to copy as much as he did.

Eaglehawk above has a link to his article describing how to deal with this sort of issue and so does S. Peterson.

@barath, If you’ve installed your WP code, there are two ways to “get into” the code itself. One is to just copy one of the subroutines and just start hacking code. The other is to write plugins. The second is safer. I may at some point talk about doing that a bit.

By: barath @ code insane

barath @ code insane — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:48:51 +0000

Do you know, how i can work with my wordpress code? i don’t just mean the themes, i want to get into the CMS. Possible?

By: bharadwaj

bharadwaj — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:47:20 +0000

Do you mean to say my content is copied illegally and accessible to everyone?

Oh my god! thats bad, Do you know how can i report it?

btw, your article on wordpress to blogger was great for a newbie to wordpress. appreciate it!

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:20:56 +0000

@S Peterson…. well, now I’m going to have to check if any of my knitting patterns are copied! If the sockulators are up there, I’m going to be angry! (Although, I think I stuffed javascript redirects in those and if they try to calculate they end up at my site!)

Sigh. . .

By: S Peterson

S Peterson — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:11:06 +0000

I run across full posts copied with a link, or copied except for the last few lines, from another blog in my niche. I’ve notified the blog author, who seems unconcerned/overwhelmed.

On ClipClip.org, their “parade” example is an item from Amazon.com. Now Amazon exists for people to buy things, and the more spread, and the easier the click through, the better. So they would not be concerned about DMCA. The same might be the case for Chamber of Commerce statements about a holiday destination site/sight.

BUT they have a knitting group, with a number of knitting patterns in full, with pictures, from knitting blogs, though not yours. And of course the “Big Bucks Blogger” and clips from kindred blogs are copyrighted.

It’s probably covered by Eaglehawk’s post, but I can refer those interested to posts on the Bloggers Forum at AbsoluteWrite.com/forums for about July 8th, where I had searched on “copyright desist.”

The standard steps are to send a “cease and desist” letter to the owner of the web site, giving a time limit, and once the time limit passes without the removal of the objectionable content, one can and should send the history of the problem to the Hosting Company. For every hosting company around the world (of any size) their TOS provides for closing down any site that violates copyright–international copyright law.

By: eaglehawk

eaglehawk — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:05:03 +0000

@Lucia,
I agree this one has been resolved, but with as popular as your blog is, it is only a matter of time before someone not as honest as Maurice copies your post without permission/giving proper credit.

I know what you mean about how easy it is to not limit your coding to forget to put limits on coding, I’ve destroyed a 5000 row database before, because I didn’t limit my sql query.

By: lucia

lucia — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:46:05 +0000

Thanks Eaglehawk!
I think this particular issue is dealt with — but I know something similar is likely to happen again.

Unfortunately, it’s often easy to code things that permit (or encourage) unwarranted amounts of copying, and the people coding just don’t understand the limits of what’s allowed.

By: eaglehawk

eaglehawk — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:46:34 +0000

Lucia,
I would take a look at http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/copyright-03.asp. He’s got a great bit of information. At my day job, I handle DMCA notifications on a regular basis. So I can offer further help should you have any questions. In fact I’ll have a post up on the DMCA on my blog by the end of the weekend.

By: Maurice (TheCaymanHost)

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:27:46 +0000

@Lucia,

No need to apologize – it is embarrassing sure, but I’m big enough and ugly enough to admit the mistake I’m glad you posted about it. Better to get these things sorted once they are highlighted. Lessons learned and all that!

Maurice