Copied blog content – Do I have a beef?

Thats good idea you posting a comment there and asking them to give a link to your site as credits.

Well, CMIT solutions has failed to respond to me for the past 6 days. Their blog copied content from my blog, and while they provided a link to my site, they copied my intellectual property onto their blog without giving me adequate and appropriate attribution, and now have failed to respond to me for 6 days. is ti really necessary to remind people that it is not OK to copy someone else’s intellectual property from your blog to theirs? If you are going to do that, you could at least make a good faith effort to respond to my unhappiness with your just copying my content.

Am I wrong?

The offending wordpress.com blog finally removed the offending article from their blog – 6 days later. The blog owner came to me and asked, “I cited your article, but how do you want it done”.

My response to them:

“Thank you for removing the blog post.

“This is really fundamental – it is just not – NOT – ok to copy content from one person’s blog to another. This is completely separate and different than “citation”. Reference and citation is good – copying content from one person’s blog or article to another without permission and/or attribution is content theft, and is, in my opinion, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA). Anyone who does not understand the difference between “citation” and content theft should not be writing or contributing to a blog.

“Do not copy someone else’s content. If [identity redacted] cannot be creative enough to come up with their own ideas, then for everyone’s good, take down the blog.

“Referencing my blog, and complimenting – and commenting on – something I wrote is fine. Quoting from my content, with appropriate attribution, is fine. Copying someone else’s content and intellectual property without permission, and without attribution, is a world of difference – and is wrong.

“Secondly, I am extremely unhappy with having to wait 6 days for a response, while the content in dispute remained on [identity redacted]’s website.

“Anyone contributing to a blog, or even writing, should understand this before doing any writing to a blog in my opinion.”