![]() Although registering your copyright typically makes it much easier to defend your copyrighted works, it is not necessary. Copyrights are important because they allow an author to create original works without the fear of later having it stolen by another author. I took screenshots of eight of these emails as further evidence that I was the author of the article.Ĭopyrights are a type of personal property right that grants the copyright owner control over the use and transfer of the copyrighted work. The article had accumulated 59 comments so I had lots of automatic email notifications telling me there was a new comment that required a response. When you write a guest post, it’s often a requirement that the author responds to any comments that readers leave on the post. I had one other source of evidence that I was the author of the original article. I took screenshots of that web page as it appeared on 10 April 2018 and I also saved it as a PDF. There’s a very useful website called Way Back Machine at which takes ‘snapshots’ of every single web page on the internet at various times in the page’s history.Īnd fortunately for me, Way Back Machine had taken a snapshot of my article on 10th April 2018. How could I prove that I was the author when there was no online version of the article with me as the author? My problem was that even the URL of the original version now had someone else as the author. the URL of the original (authorized) version.If you look at standard DMCA takedown notices, they all have two key requirements: I then assembled the evidence I needed to show that I was the author of the article.īut I had a problem that most people in this situation probably won’t have. I asked him to either restore the link to my website or remove the article from his website. So naturally, I was not happy that someone else was now using the article entirely for their own purposes. In short: I did a lot of original research for that article. I used that research to develop a ‘typology’ of hooks or opening sentences that expert writers use to grab the reader’s attention. I had put a lot of work into the article, which was a guide on how to write introductions to blog posts.Īs part of the research for the article, I examined the introductions used in 50 different blog posts written by well-known content marketers and bloggers. ![]() I was somewhat peeved (a) to have lost the backlink (which had been a ‘do follow’ backlink) and (b) that my name was now linking to the new owner’s sales page. Now, when you clicked on my name, it redirected to a web page advertising Person A's online blogging course. But the new owner of the website (whom I will call Person A) had removed the link to my website. ![]() My name still appeared as the author of the article. I became aware of this because I noticed that my backlink from that website had dropped out. In late 2020, the owner sold that website to someone else. The article did very well, attracted a lot of comments and shares, and ranked on Page #1 of Google for its keyword. ![]() In early 2017 I wrote a guest post for a well-known website in the blogging niche, which I will call 'website A'. ![]()
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