My name is Michael and I’m a fellow WordPress.com blogger.
A week or so ago, while doing some random searching across the web, I came across a blog on Blogger.com – I also discovered that the author had “re-posted” one of my fiancee’s poems without permission and was trying to pass it off as his own writing.
After doing some additional checking, I discovered that almost all of the written content on that site had been “cut and pasted” verbatim from WordPress bloggers. Your post:
“About Birth of Jesus Christ”
was one of them.
I don’t know if you gave permission for that person to “re-post” your writing, but in the event that you did not, I wanted to make you aware of the situation.
I have been providing folks with two Google email addresses (Google owns Blogger) where they can file a complaint about this person. The email addresses are:
Also, if you visit this person’s site, you can click on one of the “Ads by Google” link, where you can file a complaint against this person with AdSense (there is no reason that this person should be generating revenue off of your writings).
In addition, WordPress has a “fill-in” form you can use to let them know that someone else has stolen your content. The link to that form is:
January 26, 2009 at 5:53 am
Hi,
My name is Michael and I’m a fellow WordPress.com blogger.
A week or so ago, while doing some random searching across the web, I came across a blog on Blogger.com – I also discovered that the author had “re-posted” one of my fiancee’s poems without permission and was trying to pass it off as his own writing.
After doing some additional checking, I discovered that almost all of the written content on that site had been “cut and pasted” verbatim from WordPress bloggers. Your post:
“About Birth of Jesus Christ”
was one of them.
I don’t know if you gave permission for that person to “re-post” your writing, but in the event that you did not, I wanted to make you aware of the situation.
You can see the “re-post” at: http://its-a-long-story.blogspot.com/2008/12/about-birth-of-jesus-christ.html
I have been providing folks with two Google email addresses (Google owns Blogger) where they can file a complaint about this person. The email addresses are:
contact-admin@google.com
dns-admin@google.com
Also, if you visit this person’s site, you can click on one of the “Ads by Google” link, where you can file a complaint against this person with AdSense (there is no reason that this person should be generating revenue off of your writings).
In addition, WordPress has a “fill-in” form you can use to let them know that someone else has stolen your content. The link to that form is:
http://stolen.wordpress.com/tips/
If you do file a complaint, be sure to include the direct URL to your post as well as the URL to the location is has been reposted.
Best Regards,
- michael -