2007 Online Article Copyright Theft Causing Conflict

For those who write online articles it is understood that once your articles are posted on an online article submission website that others will soon use them for content on their websites, electronic magazines or other online digital uses. With the understanding that they will indeed give you credit for the work and include your prescribed byline with the usage of the article. These bylines will appear directly under the article.

Well of course that is how it is suppose to work however a few article authors have discovered that this is not always the case. What these online article authors have noticed something entirely different and it appears is that the problem is huge that is growing. One online article author noted that he found his articles completely mangled and this upsets me too. How is this happening?

Well it looks like someone programmed a computer to take the information from one website, namely the online article submission site and then post it on their site, but in doing so they obviously did not write the program correctly. One site has a title for another article then the one they stole from you and then your title next to an article the stole from someone else.

Others stop the article mid-drift and end the page right there. Some have no paragraphing and some put pictures in the center that overrides the article or the article runs off their margins and therefore cannot really be read at all; so I personally have seen too many of my articles completely mangled like this, most without my name on them or links back to where they got them.

Maybe there should be a place on these online article submission websites in the Author Secured Section to report websites that do this and then collect them all somewhere? Stealing content is against the law of course. Maybe all of us online article authors can sue these folks and use that money to monitor these things and pay staff to really go after them? I believe that every online article author would be upset with this problem, but I fear most have no clue it is happening at all to their articles.

My belief is that many authors turn their head and consider it a cost of doing business in this venue although certainly the gain is worth the frustration, but like athlete’s foot, if you have the problem you just want it to go away. Perhaps this article will propel thought in 2007?

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