How do you Hubbers deal with it when people copy your Hub?
I admit I have been VERY lax on the issue of people copying my Hubs but recently it's gotten bad. Today I found my PET rat article copied on a pest control blog! That was the first time I've been really POed about a copy and paste. So I am going over my other articles and a ton have been copy and pasted whole with no link, most on forums which I am now joining to ask for removal - and these are weeeird forums they're finding themselves on! Others are whole copied articles with no provider to complain to... how do you guys deal with it??
I invoke a prayer to the Ancient Ones that they might smite the copycats, so I can drink beer out of their empty skulls.
Hello Theophanes. That's a great question. After being on HubPages for over 4 years I have witnessed a lot of copyright infringement (especially with photos) and a lot of copied work posted on other sites and blogs.
This activity is illegal and needs to be reported. The best way to report this is to alert Google and other search engines by filing a "DMCA Complaint". Whenever someone creates and publishes original content on a respected site (like HubPages) they receive a digital signature of sorts that acknowledges the author and content along with a date and time stamp. Anything that is copied after that, is not considered original.
To learn more, follow this link to HubPages Learning Center Article on How To File a DMCA Complaint: http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/how- … -complaint
DMCA stands for "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" and you can also read more about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mi … yright_Act
About a year ago, this happened to me and I was so mad. I was alerted by a small group of other Hubbers that were attacked by another site where they stole our work and published it 100% as their own. We got together, complained to Google, and the site was eventually shut down and banned. You can't let copyright infringement slide.
If this happens to you or anyone you know, it should be reported to prevent future infringement. Great question that I see quite often over time.
Hope this helps! Best of success!
JSMatthew~
In addition to sharing FatFreddysCat's sentiment, I pity these people. Anyone that seeks to make money by pretending to write things they were too lazy or creative to ever think up on their own do not have what it takes to survive on their own. In other words, pathetic leeches.
I just wrote a hub about my experience in trying to deal with copied content. It probably does not answer your particular question, but it is possible that some hubbers may comment and they might be of some assistance to you.
by premsingh 16 years ago
Few hubbers are stealing the content of other hubbers and posting it on other sites by different usernames. I have published a hub on 20th August and within few hours this material was posted on blogspot by someone just changing few words in the title. I know the name of hubber but don't want to...
by LiamBean 11 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 Abby Slutsky 4 years ago
Hi,Just saw that HP noticed that my article is posted somewhere without permission. Has anyone ever posted a complaint with a similar situation? I am not sure what to do.
by Mackenzie Sage Wright 9 years ago
I have a problem. Encyclopedial.com has reprinted about a dozen of my articles, word for word, with no credit to me and without permission, and just keeps scooping more out of my hubpages. I cannot find anything on the website about who to contact, or the company that owns it. So I went to one of...
by Sally Gulbrandsen 10 years ago
I came across someone who calls himself Sfhqeelley. He or she has several stolen hubs on his siteincluding my own Pictures to Painting - highly annoying is this is the third one stolen this week. Even more annoying is the fact that his 'hubs' meaning ours, have higher ratings than...
by Dilip Chandra 10 years ago
I just saw some hubs of mine were in PDF form in Scribd, how to bring them down. Are they any problem to my traffic, How to tackle with this?
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |