by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - May 1, 2008 - c. Copyright Infringement On The Internet
Copying Web Site Content May Be Copyright Infringment: DMCA Take-Down Notices and other Relief
Scraping website content and posting it on your website has become a relatively common occurrence. What most people don't know is that using third party website content often results in claims of trademark infringement. Further, there is a rogue element in cyberspace which simply tries to launch websites using third party content in order to avoid having to spend time creating original content. These website "scrapers" simply steal from others in order to avoid having to do the work themselves. Our copyright attorneys help monitor your website content online to make sure that scrapers and other third parties do not use your copyright protected materials without license or permission.
» Sabotaging Websites – A New Way To Do It : Domain Bits
There are many ways to sabotage a website, but today I found out that one of my websites was sabotaged in a way that I had never seen before.
A few months ago, I started a new, content-rich website. It included about 100 articles. Like I often do with a new website, I got a few backlinks to the site, then left it to age a few months before seriously promoting it.
Today I returned to that website to find it had some serious ranking and indexing problems in Google. I tried to figure out what was going on and found that someone had used a very creative way of sabotaging the website.
What this person had done was take almost every single article from my website, and submitted them to many article directories. However, the articles were submitted with his byline and with a link to his websites! Since then, many other websites had syndicated these articles from the article banks – and all of these syndicated articles were linking to his websites.
As a founding partner of Traverse Legal, PLC, he has more than thirty years of experience as an attorney for both established companies and emerging start-ups. His extensive experience includes navigating technology law matters and complex litigation throughout the United States.
This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by attorney Enrico Schaefer, who has more than 20 years of legal experience as a practicing Business, IP, and Technology Law litigation attorney.
