Category Archives: Copyright

Name and Shame: Content Stealing 1

I doubt that my comment will be published, but I have just left this comment on a blog/site:

This is stolen content from my blog, reproduced in full and without my permission.

Just in case the post is removed, here’s the URL of the home page.

It was not a WordPress re-blogging exercise as it was a copy of the whole post.  All that remained missing were the comments.

**Update** – following a tip-off from @Pointy_Finger this morning (many thanks), this is the owner of the above site.  Having looked at just this one, I suspect he’s making money from on the page advertising and affiliated links (Amazon).  As well as stealing others’ content, of course.  The names of some of the other registered domains look a tad dubious too.

Click on pic for more information.

Government Plans to Change the Regulations on Copying of Copyright Materials for Educational Purposes

Yes, the UK government has plans to change the regulations and the plans do not respect the copyright income for authors.

Writer Anne Rooney has posted up two articles on the subject to which I draw your attention.

  1. Licensed piracy? on 12 Feb.
  2. License to steal – Just say NO on 14 Feb.