Comments on: Procopywriters.com Steals its Content

By: ZenHabits.net is now Public Domain, how about Poewar? | Writer's Resource Center

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:25:29 +0000

[...] you may recall from my recent kerfuffle with procopywriters.com, I tend to get upset when I see people reusing my site content without my permission, especially if [...]

By: David Mills

David Mills — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:35:35 +0000

The copyright laws, while they confuse many, are fairly explicit.

Ignorance of those laws, as with other laws, is not a strong defense.

Hire an attorney and check ‘em out. Make thieves pay for their theft.

Stopping a person or two by pointing out the error of their ways is one thing, but making some perp pay for their ill-gotten profits will do much more. It would be nice to see them as a citation in some article regarding intellectual property and the theft thereof.

Just sayin’.

By: Simon Townley

Simon Townley — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:17:20 +0000

I don’t know if it’s temporary or permanent, but it look to me as though their blog is offline or gone. Or moved somewhere?

By: Stumbling November : Writing Forward

Stumbling November : Writing Forward — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:29:47 +0000

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By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:05:42 +0000

The “blog” portion of procopywriters.com appears to have been taken down. I don’t know what they plan to replace it with, if anything, but lets hope that it is a legitimate blog written by a real person (preferably paid for their efforts). Whatever the case, I hope that puts an end to this issue.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:43:35 +0000

Nice Term Michael.

By: Rianon

Rianon — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:11:43 +0000

Ok, thank you John

Like I said though it’s not quite up yet but I hope to get it up soon……

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:29:46 +0000

John;

I came up with a term for what happened to you.

I call it contentjacking.

See http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/

Mike

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:30:00 +0000

Thanks Michele. I added a link to your article to my post.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:59:28 +0000

John, I linked to this post on my blog to warn others of this tragedy.