Its a sinking feeling to know that your hard work is stolen and published without due acknowledgment.Many a times images and content have been stolen in spite of being copyrighted.Blogging community has become easy target for such cowardly act.
I request all the bloggers to come together and raise there voice this disgraceful act. In the comments section share your ways of watermarking the images and preventing the content from being copied.Use the logo and blog about your experience with plagiarism and let me know about it so that I can included it in this post.Spread the word and caution the new bloggers about copyrighting the content.
Water marking images
I use Paint tool in window or Picasa(free down loadable) to add text over my images.For the copyright symbol press control Alt and C simultaneously.Make sure the copyright is bigger in size and more noticeable.
Check out the very helpful post about water making digital images by Cham of SpiceClub. Thanks Cham for the informative Post:).
Sangeeth also shares her simple way to watermark images here.Thanks Sangeeth:)
Read these informative posts
*A very detail website about dealing with Plagiarism - Plagiarism Today
* How to copyright and protect your blog content?.
* Copy right - ways to protect your content from being stolen
* How to protect your digital images from being Stolen?
* Guide on how to Copy right or Copy protect your content
Comments
Plagiarism it so pervasive, hardly a day goes by where I don't get notices of someone using our content unauthorized -- text and images most often, but sometimes one or the other (there probably are lots of our images out there but I can't get alerts on these so don't know about them). Usually there are several a day. Most folks do have the good graces to provide a link back to the site and/or credit the site. So I have stopped pursuing these, as there are so many I wouldn't have time for much else. (Don't get me wrong, I still think it's wrong and it is illegal, but I don't have enough time to pursue each case).
It's the ones who just steal the content without any credit or link back whatsoever that get to me. These are harder to find unless you happen across them (Google alert won't work unless they mention the site somewhere in the post). But I come across these all the time during surfing (these I do pursue). It is maddening. The average person just doesn't even seem to he conscious at all that there is anything wrong with what they are doing. I think an education campaign would be the first step.
Thanks for pulling us all together!
The research and hardwork that goes into a recipe should be appreciated,atleast left alone and not copied.Thanks Y,for this post to help and support each of us against this crime,and at the moment lets support Malar in her efforts.
I will run a post and do a detail method how to copyright the image.
It is such heart breaking when someone scrap all ur hardwork! Let's stop together.
Cham.
Good for you for putting this out there...I really need to start water marking my photos.
I have read in few blogs that it is happening to them too.
This was really a good move
I could use some reinforcements on this plagiarism issue at one of my blogs. Someone used one of my recipes without permission, she did credit me but no link was provided. Permission to reprint was never asked for. Now one of her friends has left a post on my blog saying that I am hostile. Well maybe I am, but I have good reason to be. Not only is my meterial be used without permission, but apparently, I am the bad guy for pointing it out. All I stated was that providing a link back to the site she took the content from unauthorized was the LEAST she could do. That makes me hostile. Yeesh!
Here's is the post if you are interested
http://cookingclub.fabulousfoods.com/2008/11/still-time-to-enter-this-months-cooking.html
All the best,
Cheri