Do you know copying one’s content/article and reproduce it in your site without the consent of the author is against the law? such wrongdoing call plagiarism.
Plagiarism is an act of copying another person’s work into your own work without the permission of the former.
Plagiarism is somehow prevalent in cyber world as the content is so easy to copy and be found.
If you want to know which website has copied content from your blog without your permission, you can now find the plagiarist through this site call Copyscape
Copyscape is designed to combat online plagiarism. The services provided in this site including:
1. Free Copyscape Search – this is a search engine where you can key in the url of a specific post then it will show you the relevant sites that copies such post.
2. Anti-plagiarism Banner - you may paste the below banner at your site to warm visitors not to copy your contents.
3. Paid services – you can pay them to do a more detailed search on the sites that copied your contents.
4. Resources – you may read more about plagiarism and the way to prevent it.
5. Forum – you may ask and discuss questions of plagiarism.
The founder of Copyscape is Gideon Greenspan, who is also the co-founder of Google Alert.
Malaysian Position
In Malaysia, the law which makes plagiarism illegal is law related to copyright protection, i.e. Copyright Act 1987.
Since copyright of one’s work is automatically protected under the law, hence, there is no requirement to register the same.
If one is found to be guilty of plagiarism then he will be asked to compensate the lost suffered by the author due to his act.
So don’t play play with my content man, I know where to find you now…..!!!hahaha
6 responses so far ↓
1 Bengbeng // Feb 5, 2008 at 12:15 am
http://via-gra-fan.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-longkang_04.html
100% copy n paste from my blog..wat can i do eddie? please advice..i tried contacting the blog owner but to no avail.
2 Eddie Law // Feb 5, 2008 at 12:24 am
Bengbeng – you can appoint a lawyer to issue a warning letter to him and/or can report to Communication and Multimedia Commission, which is governing the legality of internet usage in Malaysia.
3 BobbyT // Feb 5, 2008 at 3:18 am
Appointing a lawyer can cost money, or at least your valuable time. The time saved can be used to produced even more quality posts.
I suggest you to just report the copycat to Blogger, get them to remove his account or something. You may want to read this: http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-to-do-when-your-blog-content-is.html
4 firdaliciousz // Feb 19, 2008 at 12:06 pm
well,i think people know bout dis but just dun care
n it happened a lot if ur a student n do ur assignment
neway thanks 4 d info
it helps me a lot as a law student
thanks~
5 mamazieza // Apr 28, 2008 at 9:06 am
Dear Eddie
We are having problems such as those taking our photos of cooking and our recipes and putting up in their blogs and websites..and to make it worst.. some of them have the cheek to sell the receipes with our photos claiming it is theirs.. what can I/we (as the owner of yahoo group/or individual do). eg. http://www.myversatiledishes.com/produk/.
this website is compiling all the receipes and also the photos from a receipe group and my receipe and photo and selling it to the public.. We have tried to contact them.. but they did not reply.
thanks.
6 Eddie Law // May 3, 2008 at 11:48 am
If someone copy your picture and writing without your permission, this is a clear case of copyright breaching.
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