Archive for November 27, 2009

Copyright old fashioned or just not done?

What would you think if you suffered for days writing a decent text… someone else uses that same identical text on his own website and pretends to be the legal owner of it?!

A long time ago, copyright was invented for musicians, artists and writers to stimulate creativity. Musicians were forced to come up with total different tunes, melodies and riffs. Media exists for a long, long time and you can find media everywhere and all around you… in newspapers, advertisements, posters, on television, no the radio and on the internet of course! Due to this overload on media, it’s getting harder for marketeers to create new design, new concepts and new ideas.

Instead of creating totally new music, musicians e.a. started to build on exciting media and let themselves get inspired. There is a very thin line on what is copyright and what is not. Is getting inspired by another song and changing it into something else, illegal?

How to check duplicates of your content

Nowadays, there are a bunch of tools available to check on copied content from your website. One of the most common used is… Google ;-) Just copy some of the content from your website and use it as a search term. It will automatically provide you all the websites which use the same content.

Note to my students: this will be checked on your websites as well :-) So if you quote someone, place the link to the qoute in your article.

And for all my happy students:

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