How Much Content Would You Allow as Fair Use?

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   Someone has posted a 100 word paragraph onto their Facebook page. Would you consider this fair use or would you report it?

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      OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Report it.  There should be zero tolerance for plagiarism.

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      bravewarriorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Eugene, I'm curious. Are you finding your stolen content on your own or by way of HP adding the copyright circle by the title on your account page? The reason I ask is because since Maven has taken over the formatting, I don't have any new copyright violation notices showing on my account. My fear is that HP is no longer trolling the 'net and alerting us when our work has been plagiarized.

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         eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Occasionally I become aware of copied content because of the red copyright symbol, but usually I'm vigilant and search for extracts from top performing hubs regularly (or ones that aren't doing well sometimes). If I see a downwards trend in traffic in a hub I check too in case readers are being siphoned away to a copied version. I wish we could acknowledge those red copyright flags so it would be easier to notice new ones appearing. (or just send us an email if there's a new detection).

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   GwennyOhposted 4 years ago

   I'd ask them to credit and link it. I wouldn't consider that fair use.

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   GwennyOhposted 4 years ago

   I would also request them to reduce the length of the snippet they used.

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   I reported the content to Facebook. Of course they started nit-picking, even though I submitted the original and copied content's URLs:
   
   "....it's not clear that you have rights to the reported content. In particular, it does not appear that you (or your client) created the reported content, or that you are otherwise authorized to submit this report"
   
   So I posted a comment on the Facebook page telling them to remove it and it appears to be gone.

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      bravewarriorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I've gotten the same response from Facebook when I found my poem "I Feel  so Fat" on a Weight Watchers FB page. They (FB) were very disrespectful in their response. No matter that the URL and publish date of my original made it glaringly obvious that I'd been plagiarized. They just don't seem to care.

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         theraggededgeposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         I had awful trouble with FB a couple of days ago. They kept disputing my claim. In the end, I copied and pasted both versions (and it was almost the full article text) into an email and attached a screenshot of the Copyscape results. Eventually they removed it.
         
         Then I found another one. This time I included the Copyscape results in the original report and they took it down immediately.

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   Sorry I thought it was removed, but it was just a shared copy.

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   CYong74posted 4 years ago

   I reported the same issue to Facebook and they gave me the exact same answer. It is disgusting.

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      eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I know.  I quoted it back to them on Twitter and told them it was crap. Twitter, I've found is often a useful tool for embarrassing these companies and getting their attention.

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         CYong74posted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the tip. I will do likewise.

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            CYong74posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            No luck with FB so far. They just keep closing the case and ignoring me.
            
            Truly disgusting.

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               eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

               They removed my content so they must have bothered to actually compare versions.

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            Miebakagh57posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            I'm noting this for future references. Thanks.

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