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This is Stef, and I’m going to get philosophical on y’all.
I do a lot of thinking. Sometimes I even write these things down. But, I wanted to keep it separate from my main blog. The Big Blue Couch really does exist. It’s in my apartment in Edmond, OK. Really.
michael said,
January 25, 2009 at 22:46
Hello Stef,
My name is Michael and I’m a fellow WordPress.com blogger.
A week or so ago, while doing some random searching across the web, I came across a blog on Blogger.com – I also discovered that the author had “re-posted” one of my fiancee’s poems without permission and was trying to pass it off as his own writing.
After doing some additional checking, I discovered that almost all of the written content on that site had been “cut and pasted” verbatim from WordPress bloggers. Your post: “The sun always shines on TV” was one of them.
I don’t know if you gave permission for that person to “re-post” your writing, but in the event that you did not, I wanted to make you aware of the situation.
You can see the “re-post” at: http://nothing-but-thanks.blogspot.com/2009/01/sun-always-shines-on-tv.html
I have been providing folks with two Google email addresses (Google owns Blogger) where they can file a complaint about this person. The email addresses are:
contact-admin@google.com
dns-admin@google.com
Also, if you visit this person’s site, you can click on one of the “Ads by Google” link, where you can file a complaint against this person with AdSense (there is no reason that this person should be generating revenue off of your writings).
In addition, WordPress has a “fill-in” form you can use to let them know that someone else has stolen your content. The link to that form is:
http://stolen.wordpress.com/tips/
If you do file a complaint, be sure to include the direct URL to your post as well as the URL to the location is has been reposted.
Best Regards,
- michael -
Shame on you! « Big Blue Couch said,
January 26, 2009 at 12:46
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Stef said,
January 26, 2009 at 12:48
Thank you Michael for telling me this! I’ll pass the word along about this guy!