Are our articles here are protected by Hubpages?

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   GeneralHowitzerposted 14 years ago

   Your comments/posts are very welcome here.

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      HubPages have special technology that allows them to track people who copy and paste text or save whole pages and as soon as they're alerted they send out a mob of thugs to the perpetrators house to beat them up. A broken leg, or a few crushed fingers. It's usually enough to teach them not to do it again.

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         B.T. Evilpantsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I do freelance copyright thugging.

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   tantrumposted 14 years ago

   Do you mean copyright ?

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   ryankettposted 14 years ago

   You have all of the powers that you need to protect your own content. Hubpages is powerless to prevent content theft (although will alert you to this).
   
   The action to take against the thief is your responsibility, you can find out a more on this in my hub about plagiarism if you so wish.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   No, they are not. You own your own copyright and are responsible for going after those who steal your material.

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   livewithrichardposted 14 years ago

   All of your writing is covered by copyrigh as soon as you write it, it's easier to proove once it is published.  When it's published online it has a date stamp which you don't see. But you can always just read the copyright notice at the very bottom of every page here on HP

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   Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

   HubPages won't go chasing people who steal your work, but the good thing is that if they do detect a duplicate of your article anywhere, you'll see a small copyright symbol appear next to your Hub on your Statistics page.  Then you can go after them yourself!

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      quicksandposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      What if they live faaaar away? Just kidding!

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      Kent Merrittposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's good to know!
      There's also that 'Creative Commons License' thing you can put on your hubs, right?!

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         GeneralHowitzerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         'Creative Commons License', I wonder what is this...

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            Uninvited Writerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Look it up.
            
            Some of my hubs have the text on the bottom.
            
            
            http://hubpages.com/hub/Foods-That-Lowe … l--Legumes

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               Kent Merrittposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Uninvited Writer - how do you feel about what Creative Commons says, "You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit this work"?  It's the first thing they mention on their link:
               
               http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
               
               I know they go on to list their conditions, but to me, it almost encourages people to copy your stuff!

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   quicksandposted 14 years ago

   Since hub pages does not allow HTML it is not possible to place a copyscape symbol on hubs. So I use a simple "home made" JPEG on my hub articles, worded to discourage plagiarism.

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   Great info, learned something new, thanks guys.

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   GeneralHowitzerposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for the reply guys...

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    Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

    But...it says right underneath...under these conditions...

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       GeneralHowitzerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks guys for posting i learned a lot from your ideas...
       
       @tantrum : yeah its copyright.

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    Helen Caterposted 14 years ago

    I don't think anyone would want to copy my work..ha ha so I think i can sleep safe knowing no one wants mine!!!

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