This is the first time, plagiarized

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   GwennyOhposted 3 years ago

   An abandoned Canadian family services site plagiarized one of my articles. It's odd because the site's contact info is all obsolete. I have asked their host to take it down, and am waiting to see how that goes. Grumble grumble...
   
   I am sure that some never get their stuff taken down. Does that have bearing on the article's stats, payouts, etc? its overall value, I mean?

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      samanthacubbisonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      From what you've said, it doesn't sound they are popular enough that it'll impact your original that much. Could you let me know which article it is?
      
      You can also file a DMCA complaint if simply reaching out doesn't work.

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         GwennyOhposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         This is the article, Samantha: https://hubpages.com/hub/Quick-and-Easy … p?hubview.
         
         I am working on a DMCA notice, but their Webhosting outfit makes the process unnecessarily complex.

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            samanthacubbisonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Haha, what!? Do you mean that long text block article with 0 formatting? (Not going to link here.)

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      These days plagiarism is getting common! Most of the sites hosting the original copy right materials seems to be aiding the problem.

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   GwennyOhposted 3 years ago

   @Miebakagh57; I hope I don't face this too often. It's very annoying. I seem to have been lucky so far but don't really know if there was more while I was away focusing on other things.

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   GwennyOhposted 3 years ago

   Yes. It's weird because as you see, my article is blended in with other writing. Haha is right!

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   Kenna McHughposted 3 years ago

   Miebakagh57, can you clarify that comment?

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   GwennyOhposted 3 years ago

   @SamanthaCubbison; I was wondering at that too--that my content is jumbled in, it wouldn't concern me if I hadn't gotten the notice that it's plagiarized. However, HP had identified it as duplicate content. Maybe Google will too. This is why I even bother to address it.
   
   However, it also seems a tad risky, as it is not my content alone in that jumble, and I don't know how precisely they mean it when they say to be very sure that content is yours when issuing a DMCA takedown. Mine is in there, but...

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      samanthacubbisonposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I checked it out and there is a dupe percentage, but it just says that YOUR content may have been stolen. Since your article came first (seven years ago), it should recognize yours as the original? But I'm not as familiar with that.
      
      I don't think it matters that other content is in there, as other authors have done this when they copy a majority of their content and added a few sentences here or there.

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   GwennyOhposted 3 years ago

   That's interesting... I'll move forth with the DMCA notice.

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