CopyScape offers a temporarily protection for our article, and maybe the best answer for now!
In the article: “Find Out Where Your Most Popular Articles Are“, I listed a link to the site called CopyScape as an easy way to find out where your articles would be. It escapes me totally that we could use the codes provided by this site for our articles.
Though it is not guarantee that this will stop thieves from copy and paste, it might help ward them off, unless they totally do not care about plagiarism!
Step by Step to Use CopyScape
- Click on the link and fill in your URL, you can find out quickly what and where your popular articles are. To test this out, copy this link: Five Signs That Tell Your Relationship is Over and paste it in the box on CopyScape. You will see there are many results, some link back to my original URL, and some copied and pasted the whole article without my byline.
- On this same page, you will see a banner underneath the box like this:
Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner! - Click on this banner to get the code and put it on your article at the very end before submit it. Remember, this is just a preventive measure or a warning for people who respect the law. It is not the absolute answer!
- For personal blog, you can use the same code on your page. Make sure you comply to the term of service.
Two more sections on this website that should be explored:
Preventing to Website Plagiarism
In this section, you will learn how to prevent your article from plagiarists from stealing your content. As mention above, you can put a banner on your article to deter thieves, or you can subscribe to CopySentry for a small fee of $5.00 dollars a month to detect plagiarism automatically. This may work if you own your blog or website though.
Responding to Website Plagiarism
This is a must read section! There are many helpful links you should know when you plan on taking action. You will be able to find the website owner’s name, phone number, and contact them directly. You can also file a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), and use Internet Archive to show proof of infringement.
Other Sources
Another way to protect your content is to install JavaScript code to stop the right-click action. This is a common, but temporary way to protect photographs. However, if the experience plagiarists know how to get around the code, they still can steal the content! It is designed to deter some visitors, not all.
- Hypergurl: No right-click for images. No right-click for source. Disable “copy and paste”. Protect source code.
- JavaScript: No right click script
- Billybear4kids: No “Right Click” Script
- Java-Scripts.net: No Right Click JavaScripts
The best way for us to protect our material right now is to use CopyScape since we can just imbed the code at the end of our article. Here is an article I found today using this method: Oh No, Not Another Funny Cat Thing.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:01 am
It is a very useful article for content writers. Thanks for sharing!
December 12th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Excellent and extremely relevant to all online writers.
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Excellent advice…I will be using it. Good read.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:12 am
This is what I was searching for thanks for the information
December 12th, 2008 at 3:23 am
this is superb,just in time,thanks BC,
December 12th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Very helpful article. Thanks for your research.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:33 am
BC,
This is great advice. I’m definitely going to do this. Excellent article!!!
Randy
December 12th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Yeah, I’ll give this a try. Thanks.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am
use copyscape.
Yes it helps to tell you that content is unique or not.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:06 am
A very topical and useful article. Thanks for sharing this.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I disagree about the no right-click scripts. I actually like to copy some snippets for my personal use. I use right clicks to open new links in new windows/tabs and to copy a link wihout opening it (browser functions).
I wouldnt want to be annoyed by a pop-up that says “this action is not permitted”. I would rather instigate revolution in the name of right clicks than be a loyal reader of your blog.
Also it is futile. This protection will not carry over on RSS feeds.And it doesnt take rocket science to circumvent. I just have to disable javascript on my browser. And I do it regularly to speed up load times for pages.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
As a web page builder familiar with browsers and how the work, those ‘no right-click’ add-on are useless, they do nothing. While stopping ‘right-click & save’, the image if viewable upon your computer, is IN your computer, in the TEMP and CACHE folders, ready to ’steal.’ And there is always ’screen capture’, which effectively bypasses the ‘no right-click’ measure.
The best way to protect your images is ‘buy’ a service for embedding traceable watermark indica directly into the image. You can ‘buy’ something like 1000 ‘codes’ for a reasonable nominal fee, and the company you buy this from, has registered these 1000 ‘uses’ as being YOURS. They actively scour the web using robot.txt in the servers, and if they find an unauthorized instance of use, report back to you.
‘Embedded registra’ is invisible, unreadable to human eye, and ‘cut & cropping’ a so-enabled image would most likely be a gambit for you do not know where (or how many times!) this secret numismatique is embedded.
While I applaud the effort to prevent ‘image lifting’, I laugh at these measures for they are less than a 1% efficacy for those in-the-know.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:12 am
a very helpful article for inline writer. Thanks for sharing.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Thanks for the support and comment everybody!
@Jesvin–Thank you for your opinion, and as I said, it’s not going to keep experienced know-how to get around the code!
@thestickman–the article has mentioned it as a preventive measure, nothing for sure or absolute!
December 12th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Very informative and excellent advice. Thanks for all of your tips on the safety of our work! God bless, BC. I will most likely view this page again.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am
An in time article.Good job.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hi, BC, how are you?
Thanks for posting such a helpful article, I’ll be checking out the site soon. Thanks.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Thanks for the information, Icy. This is very helpful. You did an excellent job of explaining how things work.
Great article!
December 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
It is a useful article. I just did 6 articles for a buyer and I carefully repeated the requirements and she confirmed. I had done 15 of these pet articles for her with payment each time. Now she told me her buyer rejected them for being too much like a story. He had wanted them to advertise his products. Well it would have been helpful if I had known that. I was asked to rewrite 4 of them. I requested payment for the two he accepted and was told he would only accept them as a package deal. (grab me a shovel please)
I let her know I was publishing them myself and keep the $45.00. Yes $45.00 for all 6 of them. Glad I don’t try to make a living on GAF.
So thanks for all the tips. How would I put you on my friends list? If you accept friends.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Great idea ICy
December 12th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I think this is a great article. Thanks for sharing.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Not a bad idea at all. Protecting your work is always something to think about.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Thanks, Icy, for all your hard work and research. It kind of makes me think about door locks. They say they only keep out the honest person because the thief knows how to get in anyway. It’s such a shame, but at least we can make them work a little harder to rob us, right?
Take care & God bless.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
thanks for the information
December 13th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Very important and helpful information. Could not have come a better time. Thank you, BC. God bless….
December 13th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Very useful article. I will checkout this information that you have so suggested. I haven’t ever heard of CopyScape before now. See, you do learn something new everyday.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
December 13th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Useful indeed. Thanks for sharing.
December 13th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Very helpful article. Great piece.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Great article;happy to have come across your writings.
December 14th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
another way to bypass ” no right click ” scripts is to highlight paragraphs and articles and press ctrl + c to copy and ctrl + v to paste.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:45 am
This is a great article and I am glad that someone is standing up for copyright protection.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Awesome advice for a very sad and dispicable situation. Well done.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Thank you!
This article is very helpful.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Very helpful and useful. One should read this! Essential tool to protect ur articles.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I’m interested to see if anyone has been stealing my horrible work. I’m going to give this a whirl.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Thanks for getting this Information to the Triond Community. I think we all agree this is very helpful.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Thanks for the info.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
December 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Thanks for that.
Inna
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am
Thanks for sharing the info. it’s helpful.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I personally use the http://www.copygator.com website to find duplicated content. To me it has a number of benefits over copyscape:
1. it’s automated and brings me results instead of me searching for duplicated content. All i had to do was submit my feed and it started monitoring my feed showing me who’s republished my articles on the web.
2. i get notified by email so it contacts me when it finds copies of my articles online.
3. i use their image badge feature to alert me directly on my website when my content is being lifted.
4. it’s a free service as opposed the “per page” cost of copyscape/copysentry.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Thank you for all the comment and support, everyone!
James S.—Thank you for the information, and I am going to check it out now!
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Thanks for the information – very useful even if not 100% effective.
Thanks also to James S.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Thanks for the info – overall, it’s an effective and preventative for the average user!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Very useful information, BC. You should post it in the forums, where are a lot of users worried about plagiarism and how to protect themselves about that.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Great info – never thought about in so much detail. I’ll definitely take more care now.