Comments on: Splog Alert – Rootsfeed.com Violating Copyright

By: Bill West

Bill West — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:23:13 +0000

I’ve sent a firm but polite request to remove my content from the site.

By: Brenda Joyce Jerome

Brenda Joyce Jerome — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:21:00 +0000

There *is* a link back to the original, but when first looking at the article, it appears that it was written for them – no mention of my blog, etc.

By: Brenda Joyce Jerome

Brenda Joyce Jerome — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:13:47 +0000

They got one of mine, too. There is no link back to the original. This is really becoming annoying. Thanks for the heads up, Thomas.

By: Heather Rojo

Heather Rojo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:51:24 +0000

Yes, Thomas, I used the contact form today, which was not there on Saturday (I believe it wasn’t there, because I was looking for one at that time) I disagree with their statement, too, and I think that they are taking advantage of some gray area there . Thanks SO MUCH for your help. They are not using my content now, but I’ll have to be vigilant about check other websites and other folks who might also exploit this “gray area”.

By: Thomas MacEntee

Thomas MacEntee — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:08:23 +0000

Heather

What email did you use for RootsFeed? I do see that they’ve added a Contact Form on their site. I still disagree with their statement that they did not violate copyright.

Cheers

Thomas

By: Heather Rojo

Heather Rojo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:55:48 +0000

OK, so I just emailed RootsFeed directly, and immediately received an email in return. This is their exact comment:
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Your posts were removed from the site this past Saturday. Rootsfeed did not violate your copyright. At no time did we publish in its entirety any article from your website, nor did we ever take
attribution for any article. We posted an excerpt from the article with a link back to your site, which is completely legal.

RootsFeed
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What does everyone think of this? Comments?

By: Heather Rojo

Heather Rojo — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:35:27 +0000

Sorry, the email address copyright@valueclick.com does not work. I was not able to contact them at that address.

By: A. CAIN

A. CAIN — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:32:07 +0000

Thanks for this info. It has not happened to me yet, but I saw several of our Genea-Family on the splog site. Now at least we know what recourse to take.

By: Bill West

Bill West — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:08:02 +0000

Yep, they got me too. I’m taking the steps you suggest.
One question, if we all post nasty blog posts about what they are doing, would they automatically grab that post? I’m just envisioning a page of nasty comments about them on their own site.

Meanwhile, I’m prefacing all my blogposts for the next few days with the following:

“Notice: If you are reading this on Rootsfeed.com, you are reading copyrighted material taken from my blog without my permission”

By: Angela Y.Walton-Raji

Angela Y.Walton-Raji — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:08:59 +0000

RT @geneabloggers: RootsFeed.com is a splog and stealing #genealogy blog content – learn what you can do http://su.pr/2UFxQs