Long story short- I found out that a brand new blog had ripped off one of my blog posts verbatim with no attribution, presenting it as if it were his own content. I sent the guy an aggressively worded cease and desist email, and was about to contact his web host, but he removed the post before I got the second email sent, and made an excuse about "testing" his site and "accidentally" copying and pasting.

I've been watching his site since then, and discovered that he had reposted a lengthy how-to post from this forum verbatim, with no attribution, as if it were his own. I'm under the impression that violates the terms of the Creative Commons license this site uses.

Edit: Looks like he added "from http://talk.maemo.org." Does that meet the requirements for the CC license.

I'd like to notify the content owners, but I'm not sure who to contact. This is the forum post: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30976

I'm not going to post the blog URL, because I don't want the guy to get pagerank from this. I'll be happy to send it via private message if someone wants to pursue this.

That motherf%^&er

I haven't checked, but I doubt it. He posted it within the last hour. PM me and I'll send you the link if you want.

While "from http://talk.maemo.org" wouldn't normally fulfill the CC requirements, it may in this case. This is because there's no real policy for users of this site -- meaning nothing states whether content that is added belongs to the originator or maemo.org. The best case would be a clear cut policy where use of Talk content was outlined with a step-by-step usage methodology.

Because of this, "from maemo.org," would actually be better (i.e., everything on maemo.org is under a CC license, not just what can be found here in the Talk section).

On a professional level, attributing the author would be better practice for the person who is reusing the content. But, I would say that the CC requirements are fulfilled so long as they mention maemo.org in some way.

Tim

While it may be bad form; however, I think it is probably fair use.

I want to know the URL, but I'll mind my business. I've run across these copycats before...

I found sites reposting my blog's content, and it's actually funny. It looks like they run it through a language translater twice: from English to whatever and back to English again. Maybe to trying to change content enough to make it unique? Anyway whoever can make sense of it, more power to 'em.

And Jay, the people who count know you're the man.

Even spammers with fake blogs to gather advertisement money a link to the original texts they repliclate. I'd say it's the minumum for any honest copy & paste even forgetting the licensing details.

No link.

Just "from talk.maemo.org"

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I'm more pissed cuz I just lost this week in fantasy football by 4 points. The blog thing is just icing on the sh*t-cake.

Maybe when you get more karma, people will recognize you as a force to be reckoned with. Newbie.

/me ducks and runs... as fast as an old man can