Nope.

You can look here though:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

My page content, either text and images, are constantly beeing stolen and used on other web-sites.
I would like to know if is there any option to prevent text selection on my page (free wordpress).

Thanks for the reply. I've submitted my case the the DMCA link you provided. Thanks for all your help. Hopefully this will be resolved soon, fingers crossed!

Cheers

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Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong location but I would like some advice about what to do regarding a hosted WordPress.com blog that has stolen some of my content.

The blog post in question: http://prakashmca007.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/create-a-pop-up-div-in-jquery/

My original post: http://creativeindividual.co.uk/2011/02/create-a-pop-up-div-in-jquery/

As you can see just from the url, my post is 15 months older than the one hosted on prakashmca007.wordpress.com. Looking at both posts, you can see that my content has be lifted literally word for word, including images, links to download files and viewing the tutorial example - these actually link to the ones on my site.

I can't find any contact details on the blog to contact the blog owner directly so unfortunately my only contact has been by making a comment to the post which from my last check was still awaiting moderation - far from ideal.

As this is a hosted blog I was hoping that you has a little more power/control over this person's blog. Ideally I would like my post removed but I would be happy if the blog owner rewrote the post explaining why he found my post/code useful and making clear reference to my original post.

As a side note, looking at a few other posts on prakashmca007's site, it looks like this content as been scrapped also.

Thanks for any help and advice you can offer me regarding this issue. As you can imagine I was a little upset at finding one of my posts so blatantly copied and would like to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Thanks in advice,
Laura

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Thank you sarah

Also, make sure you are not making a typo when you put the URL into the browser address bar.

Before starting my blog, I first checked to see if the name of the blog was taken and also if the name I use as "my identity" was also taken. Run the names through Google and any domain registrant like Godaddy. See if anyone else has taken it. On Google, put all multiple words together without spaces.

Either way, we are where we are. I do apologize for bringing this out in this forum. I jumped to conclusions that I should not have without doing further investigation. As I mentioned in my email to you, I appreciate your positive approach and I hope that we can turn this around and make this work for both of us. This has been a real learning experience for me. Hopefully there will not be a next time for this but if there is, I sure will handle the situation differently.
Brenda

Domain Name: innerprints.com
Creation Date: 24-Sep-2007
Expiration Date: 24-Sep-2010

The same thing happened to me yesterday. It helps.

[quote]something that I started and have put my heart and soul into but can only do so as time provides which is so limited. I didn't get into this to have to compete.[/quote]

That's the key, to do what you do for your own reasons. I have come up with a lot of ideas through my life, that were later mimicked and/or developed by others. Who knows if those ideas were just floating out there, or they somehow got them from me, or my thoughts? Where did my thoughts come from though? I saw an interesting saying yesterday, "what someone else thinks of you, is none of your business." I had to think of that for a bit but agree. Everyone of us is free to think as we wish, and we are free to live as they wish, as long as we don't impinge on the similar rights of anyone else.

I used to work at keeping my ideas a secret and not telling anyone, then went through a gradual transition where it just doesn't matter to me any more. The ideas, and helping people, are more important than whether they came from me or from somebody else. I would relish that every person would spread the ideas and the ideals that I cherish.

I've found this new site that lifts everything from my site including the social network buttons at the footer of every post! But the blog has no ads and they do link back and say my name. Because they also added the social network buttons means the site is a news aggregator.

There are many fake news aggregators around. This is probably one of them. They do nothing but copy your stuff to make money - if they had no ads they were probably using cloaked banner or affiliate links or simply hadn't added their ads yet. You're within your rights to file a DMCA notice against them if they are copying your text or images.

Re the original question: names and concepts can't be copyrighted, so the DMCA doesn't apply. If you believe there is a trademark or other legal issue you should seek legal advice from a professional.

Brenda, I looked at the about pages of both blogs and they look entirely different to me. The other blog is talking about finding "our own places of genius", and I don't see that mentioned on yours.

I agree with focusing on your blog and not being concerned with what anyone else is doing. Someone stole my nickname on yahoo five years ago, including my buddy list and photo, and to this day sends messages to people on my old buddy list, pretending to be me. Whoever it is says he doesn't run any more, was in a car accident (perhaps poetic justice) and has moved to Michigan. I wrote to yahoo a number of times about it, and even though they have my original information on file, they did nothing.

If you are in a creative field, I honestly don't understand what you're worried about, since they will not be able to do what you can do. Differentiate yourself through your work, and dominate them by out-googling them (which you can do by blogging daily and using tags and categories wisely). That way, both artistically and in terms of reach, you will dominate them.