Marketing Sherpa has an article about how to prevent blog content theft. One pointer is to include a caveat that says: “If you like this article, please link to it *instead* of copying it. Thanks.”
Marketing Sherpa: Preventing Blog Content Theft
BL Ochman | July 25, 2005 | Permanent Link | Comments (4) | TrackBack (
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I did a search, Technorati or Google, on Vaspers the Grate blog. I found a web site that had posted an entire post of mine, exactly as it appeared on my site.
Funny. All my posts contain:
(1) 150 KB digital art or photo images
(2) [signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate
with Vaspers the Grate a hypertext link to my site.
This doesn’t prevent post theft, but if a thief just copy and pastes my posts, they get my identification.
I’m glad I “sign” all my posts with embedded URL.
that is smart. i am going to do that from here on.
thank you!
B.L.
Cutting/pasting is the sincerest form of internettery. (Someone hook a magnet to Fred Allen, he’s spinning enough to power a small city.)
It’s an ongoing dilemma for bloggers: link to something that disappears behind a paywall after X days, or include enough of a quote from the item to let people understand the issue without clicking through on the (now dead) link.
The fact that my link won’t remain useful for very long affects how I link to sites like Marketing Sherpa. There’s no question they post excellent content, and a subscription isn’t outrageous. But when I’m deciding whether to link, how to quote, and how to link, the paywall affects my decision in a big way.
I’m not advocating copyright theft. Just noting that people will want to quote more and link less if the content is going to disappear soon.