Help with DMCA takedown for my most recent content

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   Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years ago

   I just wrote an article about the digital revolution and it was published two days ago. Just a day after, I noticed that a website hosted by WordPress.org has displayed the article as theirs
   
   They even copied the title "A Very Brief History of the Digital Revolution - Also Known as the Digital Shift" and used the main idea as the concept of what their website was about. The images are also copied. But they deleted the sources list.
   
   I checked for the owner details on WHOIS and found none. The website itself looked like a suspicious phishing scam and laid out as if written by a newbie in India. I don't think it's a good idea to contact them via the contact details provided there.
   
   I need some help here. How to best deal with this issue? Does HubPages staff offer any way to file the DMCA takedown with them?
   
   

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      wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      There is a hub on my carousel about filing DMCA's, specifically about finding where to file.  You might check it as it goes beyond the whois site.
      
      Don't forget, too, that the best option is usually to file with the hosting service, not the web site.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 6 years agoin reply to this

      You can notify HP and they will provide info that will help you to file a DMCA.  However, if the author is not in the US or some country that supports DMCA complaints, it won't do any good.  You can, however, report them to Google https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?hl=en and if they feel you are correct, they can remove sources of income from that site or possibly the site itself.

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         Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         It appears that the offending website is not indexed with Google yet, but I have filed a report for the un-indexed urls anyways, thanks Timetraveler2.
         
         Both the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), the two treaties implemented in the DMCA, are in force in Indonesia since 2002  and 2005. (I'm not located in the US..) Local bloggers I observed on Blogger have been filing content takedown and been penalized for abuses (usually deletion of copyrighted content).
         
         Since I published the article on HP, I thought maybe there is author support team that can help with this

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   Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years ago

   Thanks so much, Wilderness I have been in communication with the domain registrar - the only link I found from a lookup. Your experience in resolving similar issues in the past is a great help.

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      wildernessposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Hope it works out.  We're all plagued by thieves, which is why I wrote that - a small return for the great help I received over the years.
      
      Good luck!

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