SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) has been creating waves all over the Internet since the day it was introduced and while it has garnered support from big media firms, Internet companies like Google and the entire web community has been rallying against it. Boycott SOPA is an app for Android phones that lets you scan [...]
An open approach to the web and content publishing in general involves a standard system of attribution. If you get image and content that are both under Creative Commons, then it is a must to properly cite them. However, some people find it difficult to do this properly because most license information is confusing and [...]
Professional bloggers often have to deal with the fact that some of their material is copied and pasted on to other sites. Search engines then show up those other sites in their results as well, which makes our posts no more important than a copied-text post. One way to ensure that this does not happen [...]
Its frustrating when you spend so much time writing an article or a blog post and then see it shamelessly copied by some other site without proper attribution. FairShare is a free service that lets you claim your work (poems, articles, blog posts etc) online, declare how you want to share it and find how [...]
CopyGator is an online service that can monitor your blog RSS feed and notify you if someone bluntly stealing blog content from you. The service will provide you with an overview page where you can see how, when, where your content is being used. Each found copy will have a clear side note (i.e. bears [...]
CopyrightSpot is a website that lets you search the web and find sites that are reusing your original content with or without your permission. Enter the address of the blog, webpage or even an RSS feed, click “Search” and wait for CopyrightSpot to crawl the web for duplicates. Once it’s finished scanning the web it [...]
Extremely useful web service where you can quickly find out whether or not some work published in the USA (with or without a copyright notice) is protected by a copyright law and requires permission for use. How does it work? 1. Move the red arrow on the right hand side to correct time period. 2. [...]
Wondering what videos were removed from YouTube due to copyright reasons ? Youtomb is the place to find it out. Youtomb is an interesting project from MIT folks that scans growing database of YouTube videos and finds videos that were removed by the user or taken down by Youtube staff. Although you won’t be able [...]
Copyscape is a service that lets you easily locate the websites that are stealing your content. Simply type in the URL of your webpage and Copyscape will crawl the web for duplicates and present you with a list of websites that have copied your content with or without your permission. The best way to benefit [...]