My top article which was one of the very first articles I wrote wa copied by a site in December, 2018. I did not issue a complaint at that time because I could not find the author's email address. I thought Google recognizes real articles from copied ones so I did not mind much. But now I am hating to see the comments in her article. ON the top of this my views for this article are down by 75%.
I am an amateur writer who just started to learn writing. It hurts to see such beautiful comments on her article. I am sure her written English is better than mine which might have made her top the google despite her copying. Please help me out. Should I comment on her page since I don't find her email even now?
You don't need an author's email address to file a DMCA demanding the article be taken down. Indeed, it is most effective to file the document with the hosting site as most authors already know what they have done is illegal and will simply ignore anything you give them. Some hosting sites, notably those in China, Russia and a few other countries will ignore you as well, though.
There are instructions in the help center for filing a DMCA, and if the copy is turning up on your "copied articles" section of your statistics screen it will help walk you through it. In addition, there is an article on my profile carousel that will help you find where to file if it isn't obvious.
Finally, Google will accept a complaint as well. They can't take down the article, but can remove it from their search engine results and they should be viewed as a last chance effort. Of course, all the other search engines will still have it listed, which is a good reason to actually get it removed from the web.
You can use a site like whoishostingthis.com to find the name of the page's hosting provider. Most hosting companies have an "Abuse" email address or contact form to fill out for copyright infringement. This is where to send the DMCA notice. In my experience, contacting the hosting provider is the fastest way to get the infringing material taken down.
I'll help you find the information and file a DMCA complaint. Send an email to team@hubpages.com with a link to your copied article.
Once I see Adsense ads on the violating page, I just head for Google's Legal Removal Request.
My experience with asking them to take down content they stole from me has always been negative, and a couple of times, abusive!
They don't listen and they don't care, that's even if you can get to contact them. I even had to join a couple of thieving sites, just to be able to make a complaint in their comments section.
I don't really have the time to go chasing a thief up and down the internet.
The key is to go to the hosting site, not the thief. Hosts in most countries (but not China nor Russia) will respond pretty quickly and get the stolen material taken down. Most countries are signatories, after all, and hosts that allow illegal material on their servers, particularly after being notified, can get in hot water.
I did get results, in Scotland as I recall, by going to the Scottish government for aid when the host did not follow through, but that's pretty rare.
by Susan Ng-Yu 14 years ago
Help! I need some advice. Another one of my hubs has been copied verbatim with all the pictures, and the one who copied it indirectly refused to remove it.Three days ago I left a comment on his site politely asking him to remove my article but got no response for two days. This prompted me to file...
by Caren White 6 years ago
I had a hub copied by another site. I sent a DMCA complaint and rather than removing my hub, they changed the title and the wording slightly. Is altering a hub for use on another site without the author's permission considered legal? Is this now considered a completely different...
by Cholee Clay 7 hours ago
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that HP has started the process of mining articles from Discover. The new Owlcation articles have the same title as the ones on Discover (in most cases) and the URLs are identical as well. The only difference is the beginning. For example,...
by Teri Silver 3 years ago
Usually I find a couple pieces of stolen article copy on different sites. Today, it's more than enough to make me comment here. HP notifies us, adds the complaint link, and the complaint file cut-paste copy but little else to build a brick wall against content thieves. For every click...
by Lionrhod 9 years ago
So over the past few weeks I've been wanting to re-publish some of my old articles.Knowing that Google has a prob with duplicate pages I start looking up my articles on the web, and crud! My articles are ALL over the web. Some of them have 10-20 dupes.I suppose I should feel complimented!Meanwhile...
by Ann Carr 3 years ago
Why can't hubpages do something about our articles stolen by the likes of Apceo? It seems they take just about everything but HP does nothing! HP will lose out too because authors will start removing their pieces.
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