Re: Tools: Tracking down copyright violations

["Collin Turner" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I've used this service before, pretty good.

Always helps if you "watermark" your content. If you use Wordpress, for
instance, there are plugins that will do this for you.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> Just came across a fascinating service that most editors and writers
> will be interested in: "CopyScape" (http://www.copyscape.com/). It's
> a service that lets you enter the URL of any page containing your
> intellectual property and search the Web to find out if anyone else
> has republished it, with or without attribution.
>
> Limited use is free, but they offer an unlimited paid service and a
> CopySentry service that automates this process. I'm seriously
> thinking about subscribing, since a quick test turned up some
> disturbing results for my own site. (I probably shouldn't have turned
> over that particular rock... sigh.)
>
> Tip'o'the hat to Anne-Marie Concepcion, who published this in her
> DesignGeek newsletter (http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/). Well
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> stuff. Haven't attended any of her training classes, but if they're
> as good as the newsletter, they're well worth investigating.
>
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