Stolen article removed. Success!
By Joanie
@Freelanzer (10743)
Canada
January 10, 2016 5:13pm CST
I am relieved and pleased to report that the stolen article I spoke about in my post
http://www.mylot.com/post/2879868/stolen-article
has been removed from the offending site. I have to thank all my friends at Mylot for their advice and suggestions and support and especially @yukimori who did some great detective work to provide me with information that allowed me to contact the website owner.
I had also filed a DMCA complaint and let the the site that I was going to publish it on, know that it was stolen. It was that site that contacted me to let me know that my stolen article was removed and that I was free to publish it. Just goes to show that when these crooks steal your work, don't be afraid to act as you never know what the result would be.
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21 responses
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
10 Jan 16
I think I have missed this one in my absence. I did give some great info to another member who had a lot of his stuff stolen. I am glad this one worked out and they removed your article. I think that people need to think twice before doing this.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
I would have liked to see your advice as well, you can't have too much
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
11 Jan 16
@Freelanzer Found the article of theirs and here is the link. You can read all the advice on there. Hope it will help you out.
I've been active on online sites for fifteen years. I don't know how many posts I've written during this time. Some sites allow to reuse old posts. That...
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
11 Jan 16
I'm very glad to hear that you were successful. I'm sure that the offending site has many more stolen articles besides yours. Unfortunately, many writers either don't know what to do about it or, maybe, don't care enough to take the trouble to take the action you did.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
I am sure they do have stolen content since there is a lot of content there and no indication that there are contributors. If I hadn't tried to publish the article, I wouldn't have known either. Now I have to check all my articles before I republish them to make sure
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
Well done.
One of the great troubles with Internet publishing are those that will infringe the rights of others. I am a moderator on another writing site and have to say that over the years I have rejected so many that think they can get away with copying other people's work and we have even banned them from the site if they fail to learn.
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
@Freelanzer The trouble is they will do exactly the same again, even if they are banned from a site.
@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
I wish there was a way to publicly shame or blacklist them so they never do it again
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@keepitsimpleyo (32)
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11 Jan 16
Happy to hear that you could take it down. It would be helpful if you could post a article about how to go about dmca complaint for all those who dont know how. Thanks.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
If you check the original article there are lots of helpful comments about reporting and a link to making a DMCA complaint.
There is also a helpful link to an article in this post from @poehere
It is very disturbing when you find that your work is stolen and published somewhere else. I had a published article on the now defunct Helium which was removed...
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Jan 16
Yes, it really pays to get these jerks taken care of. Glad it was removed and action was taken.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
They expect to get away with it so it is nice when they don't
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@celticeagle (168478)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Jan 16
@Freelanzer ...They must think we article writers are stupid or don't care about our work.
@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
I think it is up to us to be vigilant and report and follow through when these things happen.
@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
Not sure what worked. I did sent the website owner an email asking him/her to remove it or I will take legal action, so that may have been what worked.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
11 Jan 16
glad'ja were able to get this resolved, hon. i dunno if'n i'd had schtuff pilfered that i've dribbled, but someone did steal a pic'f one'f my mustangs once 'n won a quarter horse contest with it. took me a bit'f time to get that remedied...
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
13 Jan 16
@Freelanzer nah, they didn't pay. 'course i didn't ask fer such. it finally came down to me ruinin' their name since 'twas a quarter horse publication 'n they was claimin' my boy to be one. e'en though the 'foundin' fathers' 'f the quarter horse world came from mustang mares - those kinda folks jest shiver't the thought'f their beloved, inbred papered ponies bein' linked'n with mustangs.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
Happy to hear yours was resolved, hope you were able to make them pay
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@garymarsh6 (23412)
• United Kingdom
11 Jan 16
Good on you! Well done perhaps other sites will be a bit more responsible but then I guess they are relying on honesty!!
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
We can hope so but there are so many crooks out there in cyberworld.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
11 Jan 16
I love hearing stuff like this congrats on getting that mess cleared up.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
Hard to believe they would do such a thing which is actually illegal
@RonElFran (1214)
• Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
10 Jan 16
Congrats on getting the stolen article taken down. I've been down that route many times now, and the problem is that even when you are successful with one thief, or ten, there always seems to be a hundred more waiting to be brought to light.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
11 Jan 16
That is so true and I am sure there are many others out there
