Hi, my content is not better than yours (maybe it is), perhaps your content is better than mine, but it doesn't matter, because yours and mine gets constantly stolen, copied, altered, no credit is given, and on top of that: others profit from your hard work. Now, constantly, you see at work or in academic fields people saying "
source: Google, Pinterest, ChatGPT", this means it's not only the act of stealing (where others take your content) it's also people performing bad practices and somehow credit a machine or service as the source. This is wrong, but working with people at universities, the more is happens, the more it's normalized.
Yeah but that's the web, right? it's free, if you don't want your content being copied, don't post.
Sure, whoever doesn't wants to die, lock yourself at home, right? By nature I seek solutions, I don't get stuck on complaining; and money has never been my main goal, that's how my websites were born, out of pure passion, getting paid for it... or just making profit... that's a different story, keep in mind that something of quality is not mandatory to be made free, so, please rethink if you have ideas like "
it's your passion then do it for free", ok, if you cook and that's your passion, do it for free then, no, there is a huge problem here.
The thing is, over several years, my content being stolen, and also "edited" in ways that it's "fair use", ha, right, sure Google, show us your source code so we can alter it and then say it's fair use. ANYWAY, back to my point, I do feel these bad practices over the years have impacted my motivation and will to keep posting content. Don't judge me, it's only natural: it creates frustration, so I created this thread here:
Do you get tired of others copying your content?
https://www.webmasterworld.com/content_copywriting/5122539.htm
But I've been wondering what can we learn from the music industry. Music (and software) gets constantly copied (as in copy paste), downloaded and shared among people who didn't pay for it. The debate began around the times of Napster and other services alike. Musicians and companies complained due to the high costs of production and LOOSING MONEY. Among many,
John Mellencamp heavily complained by these bad practiced and tried legal measures and coming with innovation, things didn't go far. Also,
Britney Spears(again, among others), said solid things about the constant stealing in the music industry.
But at that time,
Robbie Williams said something interesting, I don't remember the exact words, but, yeah copying music is bad, but you don't complain when you see your songs at the top of the popularity lists, only when people do not care.
Ok, true, FAIR point, but in that regard:
- Musicians still earned money
- Musicians STILL got CREDIT for their material
- The propagation of your stolen material contributed to their popularity
- And last, but still important: musicians still earn money (fame and credit) via other sources, like concerts, public ones or private
Do you seek other ways to profit from your content?
Can YOU profit from your persona (becoming some sort of a personality?)
How can you do these things, if others stealing your content put in risk your authorship?
How do you battle "
I wrote this" when others take your content?
How can you battle this, if others can do exactly the same? with YOUR content? like building an online authority personality?
At the end of the day, while the music industry suffers, their voices are still their voices, it's them, they still get their credit.
Format for easy reading provided by me, after taking the time using the formatting tools (you know these are limited, just let me say it, format matters for content, it's the first think you would criticize if someone posted their site for review, I would have finished in the blink of an eye with the right tools. IF YOU believe format (and context) don't matter, and it's ok to just post a wall of text without format, let me know.
