There needs to be an automatic button from within the Hubpages dashboard to just turn the new Copyright feature on for all already existing Hubs, and to automatically be on for all future Hubs.
It is quite a pain to go through 100+ previous hubs and turn this on for each Hub.
That would indeed be very useful as a global setting. It would be an even worse pain to have to go through and turn it on individually for nearly 300 hubs! (And some authors here have 1,000+ hubs!!!)
I completely agree!! I am still going through my hubs to make sure they all have the copyright on. It is such a pain in the backside area. If we could just check the copyright for all our hubs at once, that would be great!!
Another good idea would be to make adding the copyright info the default setting. Instead of having to remember to click on it to have it appear, people who don't want it would have to click to turn it off.
Putting a fraudulent copyright notice on content is a criminal offense. If the notices could be added in bulk or to new Hubs without deliberate intent, it would be easy for an imprudent author to mistakenly put a notice on content that either was not their original work or is not protected by copyright (such as a simple recipe). That's the reason we chose to implement it as we did. We do realize that puts some additional burden on authors that are confident that their every Hub should have the notice, but we are comfortable with that at this time.
Thank you Paul. I didn't even think about how something such as the notice being posted as a default setting could cause someone to accidentally claim copyright by forgetting to turn it off. Thanks for the explanation.
Well, well. An interesting link indeed... I did not know when someone steals one of our hubs that it is an actual criminal offense.
I've seen a few thieves, stealing my work, that I would love to have put behind bars.
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Criminal as well it seems. Check out the full page.
Criminal penalties are for movies, music and tangibles.
OK. I'd settle for a..."visit"... from a large hairy individual with a baseball bat instead of jail time.
Jeez, I think you're right. The criminal law protects everyone but us.
Well, the civil law is very good. Here is a link and a quote I often send to plagiarists:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/timothymccorm … nd-letter/
Pay particular attention to this paragraph:
"Under federal law, a copyright owner can be entitled to damages between $750 and $30,000 per infringement. If it is shown that the infringement is willful, the law allows as much as $150,000 per infringement. Each image identified on your website can be considered a separate act of infringement. Recent jury awards have ranged from $675,000 to in excess of $1 million dollars in damages for copyright infringement. Recently, one jury in Western Washington awarded over $1million dollars in damages for the unauthorized use of as few as five photographs. The general theme here is the matter gets worse the longer an infringor puts off dealing with it."
Taking into consideration what Pauldeeds has shared, I think it would make it easier for Hubpages authors with hundreds of hubs to put a simple button to to left of all of the hubs on the stats page (http://hubpages.com/my/hubs/stats). That way the copyright could be flicked on without having to go into the edit screen of every single hub, and it would be easier to see which hubs already have copyright turned on.
by LiamBean 10 years ago
About once a week I peruse my hubs to check on traffic, comments, and just generally see how things are going. One of my hubs, "What Are The Benefits of Eating Bananas," had the copyright symbol next to it. I know from past experience that this means hubpages has found my content...
by Jaye Denman 9 years ago
Periodically I notice a downturn in the traffic to one or more hubs, which leads me to Google the beginning or sections of it/them in search of content theft. Now HP is helping with this chore by notifying us of possible content theft and listing the sites where it's being used. There's even a...
by premsingh 14 years ago
If any content of the hub is being copied by someone and used elsewhere, its not the fault of hubber. This is nice that HP is motivating hubbers to file DMCA to the concerned site and take appropriate action,who is going to waste time to fight with the copyright violators. HP has witnessed...
by Kitty Fields 12 years ago
I decided to do some google searching of my own hub topics to see where my hubs were ranking in google SEO and found out that about five of my hubs were posted to some website's facebook page with no direct link back to my hubs. The website is called ggberry.com and is some sort of travel blog...
by Crystal Tatum 10 years ago
Do you include a copyright notice in your articles? Why or why not?I never do this, but I see that a lot of folks on here do. Just wondering what the opinions are out there.
by Thomas Swan 9 years ago
I just got a weird email from Google after I reported a blogspot page for infringing the copyright on one of my editor's choice hubs. They said: "It is unclear to us whether or not you are the authorized copyright agent for the content in question. Only the copyright owner or an authorized...
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