Who Stole Your Content Today? Guess Again!!

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As an online writer, you definitely receive a crash course in ethics and intellectual property rights—usually because yours have been violated. This may be cynical, but it seems that some people review and scrutinize intellectual property laws to see what they can get away with. And if that scrutinizing eye likes your content, and lives in another country, they may very well get away with the evil scheme. The issue online with intellectual property is that while content you create is protected by laws in your country, that doesn’t necessarily mean a person in another country has to obey them. And if said person from said other country copies your content, you must hire lawyers and pursue the matter in the offender’s location. Which is why it is so easy for people to steal online---they assume you won’t have the know-how, money, or inclination to pursue the matter because they live in a land far far away. Have you ever had content stolen? How did you deal with it?