Help! Anyone!?! Someone Stole My Article

Mar 03 2008

Help! Anyone!?! Someone Stole My Article

Published by User Image Jennie at 8:10 am under Computers & Internet

I just found out that someone, who I am not in any way connected with, just copied one of my articles (including the photos) and pasted it on her blog as if it was her own. Apparently, her name is Agnes and this is her site with my article. I am not really sure what to do about it. I sent her a message which you will see on that particular page and have contacted the Multiply authorities.

First, it is just disturbing to see my own article, with the very pictures of our wedding, our very faces(!) in someone else’s blog and written in a way that was made to appear that the thief authored it. Second concern is duplicate content. My Christian Wedding Symbols, according to my stats, is the second most searched and viewed article that I have. This Multiply user seems to be a plagiarist by heart, or just plain ignorant. As I read through her other entries, they appear to be all duplicate contents.

This is a plea for anyone who knows what else I should be doing aside from what I have already done. Thank you in advance.

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34 Responses to “Help! Anyone!?! Someone Stole My Article”

# Layne (aka Reward Rebel) (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 8:52 am

Jen, so sorry this has happened to you, but how blatant to swipe an article containing such personal content! Have you read the current post on this site http://alexroshuk.com/ (curiously you’re advertising on there today!). It’s about this very topic, and if I were you, I’d message Alex to ask his advice in this specific situation, as you never know how helpful he’s willing to be.

Good luck;-D

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# Shen Brood (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:21 am

I posted a comment on that blog. I strongly support your cause.

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# ris (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:25 am

oooh welcome to the world of plagiarism. that really really sucks. i can’t view the plagiarizer’s site but to take your photos is really nakakainis. i got scraped naman (my photo and writeup was psoted in another site without my knowledge and without mentioning who worte it but it links back to my site).

what you can do is send that girl a message (multiply pa naman yan so maybe hindi automated yan). if that doesn’t do it, hmm. wait im gonna look for that thread in our WPP forum. i posted something like that before and i got some suggestions.

here it is: http://www.wp-pinoys.com/against-plagiarism-hotlinking-scraping-t135.html

and: http://www.wp-pinoys.com/is-this-considered-as-plagiarism-t482.html

hope this helps
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# jessie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:28 am

jen, you can report the author to the article or Google for having stolen your article without permission of proper citation.

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# jessie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:29 am

jen, you can report the author to the multiply web administrator and/or Google for having stolen your article without permission of proper citation.

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# Jennie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:34 am

Kuya, how do I contact google to have this reported? I have no clue how.
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# Jennie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:40 am

Thanks Layne! I went to ask for the help of Alex. I hope to hear from him soon. Appreciate it so much. It is interesting to know that his latest post is of the same concern. What a coincidence, and top it off, I really am advertising on the same site today. Talk about timing.
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# Rj (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 12:21 pm

She didn’t even bother to change the names. I never really thought n pati blog papatulan nilang kopyahin ng buong buo..the nerve…you really should report it po
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# jessie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 12:44 pm

Jen, punta ka sa Google webmaster site… If i’m not mistaken pwede kang magreport dun. You should be using Google webmaster and/or Yahoo site explorer for managing your sites.

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# Stealing Other People’s Articles is a Serious Crime | What Have Youon 03 Mar 2008 at 1:20 pm

[…] an hour ago, Jennie, a Pinay blogger was seeking my help regarding an issue most loggers (and writers for that matter) […]
# Layne (aka Reward Rebel) (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:21 pm

It’s synchronicity, Jen, I reckon he’s within your radar when you most need him around;-)

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# Layne (aka Reward Rebel) (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:24 pm

By the way, I haven’t actually visited the offending site, because I didn’t want to give the ratbag any additional traffic! Tee hee;-D

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# bregie (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 2:52 pm

hi, jen…i feel sad when I’ve learned that _i_tH, stolen ur article, kapal ng face nya sobra….Nai report mo na ba don sa advice ni master jessie?

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# Jonathan Bailey (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 3:21 pm

I’m sorry to hear that this happened to you but this is becoming much more common. The site in question is a spam blog and nothing more. I’d file a DMCA notice with the host, Multiply. If you need any help with that you can email me. I’ve got stock letters on my site and I’ll gladly look up the contact information if you wish.

Just send me an email if you want any help!

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# Joy (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 7:16 pm

Oh my I saw it too Jennie and that was terrible. Imagine photos nyo yun bat ganun gawa niya. I don’t know if copyscape.com work s and they can do about that? You can search who copied your contain. You should get a pingback sa ginawa nya kaso sinolo niya parang kanya? Di namn siya nagreact sa sinabi mo ano ba yun deadma. bat ganun?mukha nyo yun diba? Nyay!
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# Scotty's Princess (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 9:37 pm

This is too much sis! This article is one of my most favorites here in ur site… That trying hard copy cat should be punished and banned!
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# joanjoyce (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 10:35 pm

i left her a message, thats very unethical.
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# Shanker Bakshi (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:10 pm

It seems to me not this one all her article have been stolen from somewhere else , look at the theme, Two Spiderman one is real and one copy its portrays that she is here for a game. She do not know how much efforts one put into while writing a great article like this, I wish this could be her last theft. -Shanker Bakshi

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# Shanker Bakshi (Who am I?)on 03 Mar 2008 at 11:58 pm

Jennie

Here is a multiply page where you can contact the multiply authorities.

HERE you can find Philipines copyright Act provisions.

HERE is Multiply Term of service, Multiply has right if someone posted any article on which some other person has copyright then it “MAY” terminate his/her account.

HERE you can register your copyright on your contents works of U.S. origin.

HERE you can report to google about Infringement Notification. Google will ban the site , But this is a extreme step.

First you should contact the thief agnes. I think she dosen know what she is doing, and if told her she may delete that post from her site. If she not then must must do something about it.

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# Shanker Bakshi (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 12:00 am

Jennie

Here is a multiply page where you can contact the multiply authorities.

HERE you can find Philipines copyright Act provisions.

HERE is Multiply Term of service, Multiply has right if someone posted any article on which some other person has copyright then it “MAY” terminate his/her account.

HERE you can register your copyright on your contents works of U.S. origin.

HERE you can report to google about Infringement Notification. Google will ban the site , But this is a extreme step.

First you should contact the thief agnes. I think she dosen know what she is doing, and if told her she may delete that post from her site. If she not then must must do something about it.
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# Pinay Mommy (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 1:40 am

i left her a message too! i hope she gives credit to you or just delete the post. i just hope she sees the comments soon enough.

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# The Fitness Diva (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 2:28 am

Good luck Jen.
I am on the same mission as you in getting one of these nasty plagiarists. I’ll keep you posted on how mine turns out! I hope they get banned from the internet for life! (not that that could ever happen, but I know you feel me on that!
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# glitch (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 3:45 pm

hmnn… I went to that site, it seeems deadma lang sya kxe wla sya whatever reaction sa comments. It would be better kung ireport mo na talaga sya sa multiply and demand for account deletion.

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# juliana (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 4:30 pm

I’m sorry to hear about this. It happened to me a few weeks ago. Actually, another entrecarder copy pasted four of my posts from my other blog. I left her a comment demanding for her to take the posts off. At first she reasoned out that it’s now a common practice, but I pressured her. She then took off everything.

You can probably try doing this first, then if she does not respond, you can go ahead with more drastic moves.

good luck, and I hope it’s going to be taken out of that plagiarist’s blog soon. Mine was just plain text and it was disturbing, how much more to your post that even had your picture.

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# Lerlyn (Who am I?)on 04 Mar 2008 at 5:35 pm

She looks so young Jen, I’m sure that she thought ok lang mag copy-paste ng article..pero grabe naman pati pictures same, ay pwede ka mag demanda nyan sa kanya.
Naalala ko tuloy nong highskul ako, may natanggap akong poem from a friend, she said na gawa nya raw for me, very impressive..But 2years later while nasa library ako sa bahay ng uncle ko, nabasa ko ang exact poem na bigay nya sa old book na yon, nahuli ko cia na hindi nya pala gawa yon..nakakahiya diba.

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# blog plagiarism How to deal with Copy Cat bloggers? when someone steals your contents | SHANKER BAKSHI DOT COMon 05 Mar 2008 at 1:12 am

[…] my favorite blog about this sad plagiarism of a so close to the heart article originality written by Jennie and then lifted by a wicked brainless girl agzzzz ( “no follow” link) for her bumpy […]
# Nika (Who am I?)on 05 Mar 2008 at 2:30 am

I wish you luck in getting her to credit or delete your post. Like what others have said, the best ways would be to contact Multiply since they have the power to get the user to abide by the rules or delete her account if she doesn’t follow. I hope you succeed, I’m having troubles myself with the splogs whose been blatantly copying my posts and changing some keywords for adsense purposes. -hugs-

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# twinks (Who am I?)on 05 Mar 2008 at 6:55 am

Wow Jen, couldn’t believe it. As in pati pictures nyo. I advice din na next time if you post some pics here in your blog at least put your name para if meron komopya nun eh malaman if kaninong pics yon. Nakakahiya naman yong ginawa nya, as in bad. Baka naman din di nya alam. Hope ma solve mo na ito. It’s a serious crime. :] As in pinaghirapan mo pa naman yon.

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# lena (Who am I?)on 05 Mar 2008 at 4:06 pm

since it was a social network site, maybe she thought, you’ll never find out. too bad for her. you did find out.
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# kerslyn (Who am I?)on 06 Mar 2008 at 12:15 am

hi jen! have left a comment to the site….hope she’ll realize that what she did is unethical.

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# vertito (Who am I?)on 06 Mar 2008 at 4:43 pm

sorry this had occurred to you earlier than you thought.

have sent her a simple lesson from her commentary area.

nice header photos, keep it up!
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# An Update on My Stolen Article | Marriage and Beyondon 08 Mar 2008 at 9:36 am

[…] the bed, I checked my email via mobile and knew that the Multiply authorities responded to my plea about this Agnes character stealing my article. I am so relieved to say the least. I hope to thank you guys for the overwhelming response of […]
# manilenya (Who am I?)on 11 Mar 2008 at 10:19 am

nawala na sis lol!! natakot yata ..e hindi naman pala crawler yun e plagiarist talaga sis..

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# Sherry (Who am I?)on 03 Apr 2008 at 12:57 pm

OMG, its really hurtful seeing someone stole own article.

I was droping ecard at Shanker Bashi… thats how I got to know it.

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