Comments on: Dealing with website content theft

By: Alasdair Taylor

Alasdair Taylor — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:52:57 +0000

A number of different legal rights could come into play here: the copying/publication of the content may constitute copyright infringement; the publication of the content may be libellous (or maliciously false); and the mis-use of your name could be a breach of Section 84 of the CDPA 1988 – the moral right against false attribution.

The appropriate course of action will depend upon the exact circumstances. One common approach would be to send take-down notices to the appropriate ISP(s) and the search engines, and at the same time send a letter of claim to the competitor. In any case, you should take advice from a solicitor specialising in internet/IP disputes.

By: alternative investments

alternative investments — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:36:37 +0000

My industry in very competitive, i have a company who is taking my content, midly re-spinning it so that it doesn’t make any sense to read, then reposting it on external blogs with backlinks to thier site.

The badly written article still has my name and company name, and if anyone reads these it completely destroys my credibility.

Is there perhaps some other action that could be taken due to damage to my brand and reputation by other people posting content that i have not writeen but using my name and company name?

By: Tony Lease

Tony Lease — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:21:21 +0000

Having been the victim of content theft from both actual blog content stealing AND image theft, we now have much better knowledge when dealing with the situation and in the one incident since, we got it fixed extremely quickly to say the least.

By: Narender Smith

Narender Smith — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:39:21 +0000

Our first port of call was Google as we didn’t want the duplication to cause issues with our excellent search engine positions…

By: van leasing

van leasing — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:29:55 +0000

Excellent advice – our website has been near completely stolen by two other sites in recent months. They had taken all of the graphics and content. Our first port of call was Google as we didn’t want the duplication to cause issues with our excellent search engine positions…