Monday, January 10, 2005
~ Protect Your Clients' Web Content ~
News reports have commented on instances of web content from one site appearing on a competitor's, as if it was their own. Copyscape scours the Internet for your indexed web content that is showing up elsewhere. Just enter your site URL and receive "an alert" in your email when your indexed content drifts to another website. [Thanks to Tom Mighell of Internet Legal Research Weekly for alerting me to this site.] Kathy Biehl provides a succinct overview of ways to avoid copyright infringement on the Internet. Apparently, there's generally allot of theft of intellectual property, $45 billion worth in 1999, according to a study cited by attorney blogger J. Craig Williams.