We really appreciate other blogs linking to our articles and usually they copy the first paragraph so their readers know what the linked article is about. While technically this is a violation of the Digital Millinium Copyright Act, I would never take action since they are only taking a snippet of an article and linking back to the entire article.
Where I really have a problem is people stealing my images that I took myself and people who completely steal the entire content of my articles. If you are even considering it, please rethink that strategy. Just this morning a popular blog hosted on wordpress.com had taken complete articles from here as well as a few other sites and posted the entire articles including images to their site. Even though there was a sentance at the end that listed a link to the original site, it was a clear violation of the DMCA and their site was deactivated within five minutes of the report to Wordpress about the issue.
More and more content aggregation sites like that are coming up trying to use other people’s content to build traffic to their sites, hopefully to boost rankings and make advertising money. If you see that some other site has stolen content from someone else, do not hesiate to contact the original content creator and let them know so that appropriate action can be taken.
Myself, and other content creators work very hard to bring our readers good quality information and to have our work stolen from us is simply wrong, unfair, and thankfully it is also illegal.
-Kerry
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