If someone has taken your article, changed its title and several words in the content and then placed it in one of the blogs, do not be upset. It is not right when people do like this but still, there is something that you can do. Nowadays there are a lot ways to check for copies of your article. But if you found out that someone posed your article as his or her, first of all you have to try to contact this person, i.e. write an e-mail in order to ask to remove your article. But if it did not help then you have an option, you are able to file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Before filing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, you have to know what it is and what for it is used. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a kind of a new copyright law that was worked out in 1998. The aim of the act is to criminalize the transgression of copyrighting already existed articles in other words it acts against plagiarism. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects copyrights. So according to the act it is illegal to duplicate a copyright work. A person who has stolen an article will break the act. One can say that such act is beneficial for those who carry out copyright protection technologies but at the same time it is bad for hackers and for those who steal the content of the whole articles. Violation of the act can become the result of civil and criminal punishment.
One should note that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is also beneficial for service providers especially when it concerns copyright infringement. Despite the fact that the act supports service providers, such protections are confined. It is important to underline that an online service provider is not responsible for infringement in case it dispatches unmodified information at someone’s request. An online service provider cannot be responsible for infringement if the provider keeps provisionally the content that is copyrighted and it is available online via automatic technical process that can give an opportunity for many users to download the material. But in case of complaints, the provider should prove that it does not know anything about the infringing activity and take actions in order to disable access to the infringing material that can be done with the help of the "removing" procedures.
If you want to protect all your materials, then you have to use copyright protection. It protects your rights, moreover, it can be sold or licensed. With the help of it you are able to control how your article, for instance, is used. But you have to understand that it is impossible to apply or register for copyright protection. Also when placing your article on the Internet, make sure that at the end of the article there is a copyright notice, as in some ways it avoids your articles content from being stolen.
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