Rob Kasunic, principal legal advisor to the US Copyright Office was very generous in giving some time (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/interview-copyright-internet) to me to discuss how copyright is evolving in the online atmosphere.
Especially in view of the Internet, managing our originally authored content — regardless of its digital medium (code, data, graphics/photos, music, etc.) — can be time-consuming and perhaps an endless battle.
One tool in beta right now aims to assist at least those with web sites in tracking potential infringement. Copyscape (http://www.copyscape.com/), developed by Indigo Stream Technologies, scours the web for other sites using your content or quoting your web site(s).
The very simple interface requires just a URL to your original content and runs a query. The technical architecture leverages the Google web API’s. Copyscape makers write that while in beta it is optimized for english language use, it should work with other languages.
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And if you catch the infringer, what you do? Take him to court? That it what I did, after 700 songs were literally stolen (even registered) and the judge was on the thieve’s side. We must end the false advise given to the naive like I was.
Rafel Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
August 21st, 2004 at 2:37 pm
awesome info..
I gonna need it a lot i suppose..
thanks a lot for sharing it..
Regards
Deep
August 21st, 2004 at 4:22 pm
Excellent resource! However, it was kind of like getting kicked in the gut finding other websites are copying entire pages word-for-word from my site.
Any advice on stopping this infringement once it is found?
August 25th, 2004 at 5:51 pm
The first step is contacting the infringing web site with a cease and desist. Second would be legal action. As I am not an attorney – I would not be comfortable opining on a legal issue. This is probably the single most unfortunate element of copyright and the online world – kind of like the wild west right now…
August 26th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
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July 10th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
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copyright cannot be controlled all internet users want to steal everything except few.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 am