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New Constant-Content.com Plagiarism Prevention Measures
We are doggedly pursuing a system that allows us to balance strong protection for our writers' articles and at the same time allows buyers the ability to easily find, read and purchase the documents that they are looking for. This month we had two major steps forward in our ongoing efforts.
First off, we've developed a technique for embedding a Google Alerts Phrase into our articles. Each author now has a personal Google Alerts Phrase that is invisibly embedded into their articles. Log into your account and go to the "Your Account" page. You'll see your Google Alerts Phrase. If you set up a Google Alert to monitor this phrase you'll receive an email from Google should an unauthorized copy of one of your articles be found by their search spiders on the web. This is a great way for you to keep an eye out for any content that has been posted to Constant Content and help us ensure that the site continues to be a safe place for writers to market their work.
The second piece of technology we've added makes it difficult for both real live people and robots to get at the HTML source code. We've moved the article long summary out of the source code of the page. If you view the HTML source of the page, you'll find that the article long summary is no longer there.
Anything that is viewable on the Internet is at risk of being copied and re-posted, but we're working hard to protect your articles, doing everything we can to stop your articles from being stolen. We're always open to new ideas to make the site more secure, so if you do think of a great idea for boosting the site's security please let us know!
December 2008
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Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little Says: January 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I appreciate your taking this step in protecting your authors.
My biggest plagiarism problem is when customers buy my articles with Use or Unique rights, and proceed to ignore their obligation (according to those licenses) to list my by-line. That, too, is plagiarism - they present my content as if they wrote it, when they did not.
It is very frustrating. Of course CC doesn't tell me who bought my content or where they are posting it, so after I get a purchase notice I start Googling for likely phrases. Eventually I find it - without my byline. I begin emailing the website contact about it, with no response. Maybe eventually they correct things, maybe they don't. Once, when they didn't, I tried emailing CC to report this customer's violation of the license agreement. I didn't receive a response. After that I became very reluctant to upload content.
Will Constant Content be offering more support in the future in this respect? I would like to start uploading content again, but I don't want to be taken advantage of by customers who buy my content under a license agreement which they proceed to violate while CC stands by and does nothing when I report it. And surely I'm not the only one having this problem!