Blog Content Plagiarism - Is Extra Exposure Worth It?

Constantin Basturea writes that excerpts of postings from PR blogs are republished, with new permalinks, on a website with pages featuring Google ads and asks ... ... Do their authors know about and approve this practice? The website in question is called 101 Public Relations. comments to Constantin's post, no one was asked, never mind given permission, about this site re-publishing anyone's content. I haven't been asked and I haven't given permission. passing off my content as if it's theirs. But, as Constantin describes in his post, re-published posts on the PR Blog Watch site are mostly summaries and do include links back to the complete original post on the original blogger's blog. So where's the problem? It's only a summary and it does provide a link to the original. To me, this would be much less of an issue if it weren't for the fact that PR Blog Watch is an integral part of the 101 Public Relations site, which is peppered everywhere with copyright and ownership statements. So anyone browsing the site would very soon see that 101 Public Relations say they own copyright on everything there which would include content in PR Blog Watch. Just take a look at their Creative Commons license on my blog. It includes two key phrases on author attribution and non-commercial use as the graphic shows (click on the graphic to see the actual license). As the wording in the full license says, any or all of the copyright conditions can be waived if there is agreement with the copyright owner (which is me with regard to original content on my blog that I've written). But they never asked so there is no agreement. Contrast that with re-publishes much of my content on their website (and does the same for content written by many of the 18 bloggers Constantin mentions). I have an agreement with murdok, so I have no issue with the copyright and terms of use statements they include on their site. What 101 Public Relations are doing doesn't look any different to Weblogs Inc, which got NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

Neville is currentlly the VP of New Marketing at NevilleHobson.com