What to do when someone steals your content?

[Kingstone]

I remember a time when operaNewsHub said the writers should get rights from the owners of the pictures and videos we use. The question is how can we do that? When someone steals your content, the person needs to be warned and reported to. This happens in music too.

 

[Kaffyfolla]

Stealing of your content is like stealing your business ideology, anything contrary to legal can be sue to the court of law and he would be sanctioned

 

[FreshKaz11]

Content theft is a great problem for website owners. Here are some of the things to do when your website content is stolen.

Write to the person who stole your content and ask him to remove.

Write to the web host and ask to take action against the person

File a case on Digital Millennium Copyright Act

I guess this post will be useful for those that have a website in case their website content is stolen they would be able to know what to do now with this post thread posted here on this platform I guess.

 

[Ghost1]

This issue is getting out of hand and must be addressed. I believe heavy penalty should be implemented to scare off people who does this

 

[Snazzy001]

Personally as humans gob this feeling of anger within you but that should not go far because there are appropriate ways through which problems like this are being tackled. You can get the person reported and compensations can be done sometimes using the law

 

[Good-Person]

You may politely ask them to take down the content. I do not know if you can take some legal action against them. However, you may take some legal action against them if the law in the country permits you to do so.

 

[Grant]

If I know the person who's stealing my content, I will confront that person and warn them to cut it out. There are some options out there, like what OP said. I say report them at every site that your content is posted on.

One other method is to out the person who's stealing content, so that people will start to look at them as plagiarists. That can help.

 

[Good-Person]

If I know the person who's stealing my content, I will confront that person and warn them to cut it out. There are some options out there, like what OP said. I say report them at every site that your content is posted on.

One other method is to out the person who's stealing content, so that people will start to look at them as plagiarists. That can help.

I do not know why people steal other's content in the first place. It is a shameful act and obviously it is unethical. It does not take much to create your own content or hire someone else to create one. They do this despite the fact that they know that they will get caught one day.

 

[Ceeny007]

If it's a product design, you can sue the person for copyright theft,if it's a research work you can sue for intellectual theft.

 

[Suba]

In the past when I had a website, my content often moved to other sites, even some of my content was sourced on Wikipedia, but I will let the site owner copy my content if they mention the source of the content. but if it is not listed I will reprimand the site owner to include the source or remove the content.

 

[nimzy]

There are several agencies whom are responsible for taking care of such situations the only thing to do do is to report the case to the agency to make prosecutions and charges against the person responsible for the plagiarism without my consent.

 

[Kubiat-Abasi]

I'll involve the website Managers to take a drastic step and if there's no positive change, I'll involve a legal suite to apprehend the plagiarist and the company for not acting accordingly.

 

[kayode10]

You can report to Google and they are going to pull down the website or penalize it for duplicate content. You can give them the proof of ownership.

 

[eLdavis]

If it happens I'll contact the culprit first asking him/ her to take it down but of they refuse them I'll take it up by filling a case on the Digital Milenium Copyright act

Yes this is the best form of action to take, you contact the person and have a good conversation like adults, if no positive results is forthcoming and he or she is not being cooperative, then you can bring it up to the law enforcers.

 

[Kelly5]

The reasonable thing to do as a first line of action is to try as much as possible as you can to contact the violator and Make them take that content down from their site before taking any legal action

 

[Setho]

It will be very basic for you to try to contact them and tell them to remove the content or give you credit for your hard work instead of just casually stealing it from you.

 

[Elfinito]

You are right, the best option is to file a case with the copyright board and see such person pay for stealing you content.

 

[Maayong]

Thanks for making the tips now I will know what to do if someone stole my content especially the number one and number three

 

[Trexxxy]

Wow, I didn't know people do this nowadays, I guess innovations and contents can be hard to come by and that is what leads to stealing people's content.

 

[Adebayonle7]

Thank you for these steps, as a consistent writer I experience content theft and just may not know what next to do, then I just had to take preventive measures, I stopped joining article sites like noise.cash where people can just pick your content without permission, I also lock my web contents by disabling the copy and paste function.
Will as well take the steps above when next I experience such.