Free Blogging 101 - Reclaim Your Stolen Content

Your Blog Content Stolen?

Read How You Can
Reclaim Your Stolen Blog Content.

Usually after you found the stolen content, the first step is to try reaching the owner of the site or blog that has stolen the content and do at least one attempt to handle this issue. In most of the cases this first step is not helping (those who are stealing your content without prodiving any backlinks to your sites know that they did a bad job and are not likely to change their mind).

Still, this first step of trying to contact the site or blog owner is important as you will have proofs you tried your best.

If this step did not help - do not lose time and contact the hosts of this site or blog. This is a truly helpful tip to punish the content stealer. Hosts do not want to have problems and be in any case "affiliated" with those who use content with the law breach.

This template of a successful email (generously provided by Linda Jenkinson from Older-Space.com) has proven to give effective results. Please, take into the account that the template below is not some official form to submit complaints and reclaim stolen content. This is just a message that helped Linda and might help you for the same situations. Make sure that you modify this message to fit your current situation.

Reclaiming Your Stolen Content - Email Template

Greetings,

This is notification of copyright infringement by your client *****. Please find the raw files in question and my electronic
signature in the attached zip file.

On <Date> I wrote the attached article ***** ****
In November of this year (2007) I was notified by a web visitor that a part of the
article, has been copied to your client's site
*****. I assure you that this article is in use by your customer without
authorization of any kind.

I notified your client,**** ****, and asked her to remove the
offending material. I received no reply.

Since that time, I have found two more articles copied from our site to
that of your client, including an image, which I created exclusively for
**** and that is hot-linked from ***** to
your client's site.

In compliance with your copyright infringement guidelines:

1. My electronic signature is contained within the zip file and also at
the bottom of this message.

2. I have attached the raw files. Please see the 'created date' in the
document properties. The original articles can be found at

http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php

3. The plagiarized articles can be found at

http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php
http://site.com/directory/file.php (The hot linked image is also on this page.)

4. My Contact Information:
Your Full Name
Address
Phone: (***)***-****
Fax: (***)***-****
Cell: (***)***-****
Email:email @ site.com

5. A statement that the Complaining Party has a good faith belief that
use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent, or the law. This is covered by my statement
in the second paragraph of this message ^. 

6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and
under penalty of perjury, that the Complaining Party is the owner, or is
authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is
allegedly infringed:

Under penalty of perjury, I, Your Full Name, declare all information
contained herein is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

You are welcome to share your feedback on this message and comment to this post, so that others could have the maximum advantage from our online discussion.