Did You Know There Is A Way To Find Out.....?

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....If any of your written work you have presented on any site, including from a blog has been lifted? Now some of you folks may know this method but this is for people who may not know how to do this. You see I belong to two review writing sites...Ciao and comparedby.us. Both have drastically changed a lot of their policies, especially rates of payment or how they will pay, and no doubt due to the many cheaters and plagiarizers. It's unfortunate but way too many people that write for these sites will copy/paste material from other websites that have reviews of products...any product whether a review for a DVD movie, electronics, books, you name it, then pass it as their own. Well here's a way to find out if anything you have written has been lifted and used elsewhere. Usually all it takes is to highlight either the title of an article or story OR the first sentence of the written piece. As an example here, I highlighted the title of one of my articles at Associated Content entitled "Toxic Pet Toys: New Dangers for Pets"--Now take that highlighted title or the first sentence of the review/article/story and paste it into your Google search..BINGO. It will usually come up with it's original source...YOURS (in this case my legitimate article)..but more important it might tell you if someone ELSE has used it. I bring this out since for some reason too many people think that just because they find written material on any website they can use it as their own material, not realizing they are infringing on one's copyrights. Technically speaking to get around this at least in infringing copyrights angle of it, if one DOES use material from another source other then their own work, one should at least provide a link and credit the original source and author. Also, if they can, write to the originator of the written piece and get written permission to use any part of the originator's written work. But just thought I'd give the heads up on how you can find out if any of your written work has been "lifted"--this is how I was able to discover all too many of the reviewers of the other sites I'm on and using the written work of someone else's and copying it and passing it as their own...some even had the nerve to lift reviews within the review site system itself...they were reported by the members their and the guilty ones accounts deleted. Infringement of copyright IS after all infringement.