Is someone stealing your content and just pasting it on their blog hosted at Blogger? If so, follow these steps to set things right:
Update: According to Jonathan of plagiarismtoday.com, there is no need to follow these 4 steps. Check out his comment.
- Visit the offending blog and flag it as objectionable.
- Visit Blogger’s Report a Terms of Service Violation page. Select the second radio button ‘Someone is stealing my content’ and press Continue.
- Press the CONTINUE button on the next page.
- Fill the form and request in the message that Google either delete the offending blog or remove the posts. Submit the form.
You’ll then get an automated email from Blogger which details the steps you need to take to expedite Google’s processing your request. In short, it involves writing in detail about what material has been copied, the list of source URLs and lastly, faxing or mailing (regular mail) the document.
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Tags: plagiarism
28 Jan 08
6:15 am
Though it won’t hurt anything, there is no reason to go through steps 1-4. For every copyright infringement claim Google is going to require a full DMCA notice, something you describe in your last paragraph, so it would be fastest to just skip to that step.
If you want to email in the item, the best way is to scan a copy of your signature, place it in a word file and then create a PDF of that and email it in to their DMCA agent. If you need a DMCA stock letter, or the contact information, I should have both on my site.
The process isn’t that difficult, but Google does make it harder by requiring a handwritten signature. Something that is unique to it.
Hope this helps!