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Contents Click the links to visit the desired section: Written Theft DefinitionContent Theft Definition Stealing Locations Theft Prevention Tutorials On Reporting Theft Fan Fiction.net Tutorial Fiction Press Tutorial Wikipedia Tutorial Tutorial On Reporting Stolen Website Content How You Can Help Submit Your Own Content Warehousing Ripping Support ACT The act of stealing written work of any form. This includes copying and pasting text or copying it out again by hand. Plagiarism is involved when one person's written work is passed of as another's. Stealing ideas in written form still counts. It is still someone's creative thought put into words and although it is difficult to prove who an idea belongs to, it should not be stolen. For instance, if someone creates a work of fiction and another person takes the idea and modifies it slightly, it is still called stealing. In such a case, the person should get permission to use the idea first as with any written art form one wishes to make any use of. The act of stealing written content of a website. Content mainly includes the main bulk of text on a page. Theft of this content can be seen as copyright infringement, but only when the content is stated somewhere on the page as copyrighted. Fan Fiction.net Fiction Press Wikipedia Every website on the Internet that contains written content is liable to be stolen by someone. Free Plagiarism finding Software Once you copy suspected stolen work into the search area, it will search through websites to find a match, like a search engine. However, it is more powerful than a search engine because it searches for bulk text and not a few key words. The "Publisher's Description" in the following link explains more about this. Recommended download from download.com: Disable Right-Clicking If you host an art gallery on a website, you can add the following code to the page to stop people from right-clicking the mouse and saving images. Follow this free tutorial and don't forget to keep the credits intact: Converting Text To Images If you have a small amount of text, you can convert it into an image by using the text tool in Microsoft Paint or other image editing software. This way, your written work is less likely to be stolen and written out again as this takes time. However, depending on the persistence of the stealer and the actual content, stealers may just steal the image. Tutorials On Reporting Stolen Written Art If you are serious about your work and feel strongly about not wanting it to be stolen, the best thing to do is not post your work in a public Internet location. The second best thing to do is make sure your work is copyrighted. It will be a whole lot easier to try and prove the work is yours if you have it copyrighted.You will most likely need proof that the stolen written work is yours in order to get it removed from a stolen location which provides a service, for example Wikipedia or Fan Fiction.net. Before reporting stolen work, first try to contact the person who stole it. In a lot of cases, this is more likey to get a response. If you are ignored or the person refuses to take down your work it is best to try submitting a report if possible. To report a stolen fiction work, it is best to contact the person who re-submitted it. 1. First click on their userpage (this will appear as their name in a blue link). 2. First look for a link next to "email" and contact them about it this way. 3. If they have not provided an email, choose the Contact link option. This will allow you to send a private message. You must be registered to do these options. Follow the same instructions for the Fan Ficiton.net tutorial, they are exactly the same format. If you see some content you are sure belongs to a webmaster, check to make sure again then consdider editing the article yourself in order to add a credit and a link under the text. To edit a Wikipedia article, click the "[edit]" link which appears on the right hand side of a section title. Some articles do not provide this feature due to too much abuse to the page. However, it may be that the website you saw the text on actually stole content. Also, the webmaster themself may have added it from their site onto Wikipedia and did not add their own credit. Do not delete any content as this could be a mistake.
Tutorial On Reporting Stolen Website Content As the Tutorials On Reporting Stolen Written Art section mentions, always copyright your website content.What to do if you find your work copied onto another website: Try to contact the author using an email link on the site somewhere. If this is a serious case of plagiarism and you cannot find a form of contact, try contacting the website host if the person uses one. For example if the person's site is freewebs.com/sitename or similar you could try to contact Freewebs.com about this issue.
Link To Us You can use one of the free banners provided at the end of this page and use them in places to link back to this website. Example code to use the micro bar in a message board: Example code to use the Ad Banner on a website/blog: However, please upload these images to your own host first, the Uniform Resource Locators above are simply for example purposes.
Spread The Word Tell people about this website. Friends, family, whoever. Maybe you know people who publish written work on the Internet, they would be the best people to show this page. We appreciate anyone who helps advertise and in turn every visitor we get. Direct Stealers Here If you see any cases of stolen written art and it is easy to contact the thief, you can inform them what they are doing is wrong and link them to this site. If they have any sense, a trip to this site
will be a worthwhile experience for them. If you see anything you believe could be improved or added to this page please let us know, or feel free to write/re-write some of the content. To submit content or give us your general opinion, please fill out the following form and we will consider adding it to the site: http://www.freewebs.com/act-now/form.htm We appreciate all useful additions received. Warehousing means someone has stolen, often many forms of written work and is hosting them somewhere publicly without permission. This is usually in such places stated in the Stealing Locations section. Ripping can be another meaning of stealing but it can also mean any form of defacing or modifying stolen written art. Examples: 1. Copy and pasting some or all words from one web page to another without permission
Full Ad Banner (486 x 60 px): Micro Bar (88 x 31 px): Please upload these to your own hosts before using them. Suggested hosts: Photobucket: http://photobucket.com/ |
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