It is so sad to see your efforts in terms of articles, stories, etc written by you and published on your personal blog or website being copied entirely by another blogger, internet user, or webmaster without referencing you or your website/blog as the original source, and most times, the copier ends up taking the glory of your hard work and talent.

I have had several occasions whereby my articles, stories, etc are entirely copied by a Nigerian blogger/forum user, etc without referencing me or dropping a link to my blog as the original source, whereas I have had occasions whereby some foreign bloggers and online article writers wrote me personally after reading my article/story, and ask for my permission to re-post/re-publish my work on their blog/site, and I gave them conditions which they usually abide, but Nigerians seem to be different.

I have stumbled upon my articles published without my reference on talkofnaija.com, here on nairaland, and in some other personal blogs I wouldn't want to disclose here.

Seriously we need to do something jointly as bloggers to savage this ugly situation before it goes overboard. Thanks

I agree. It happens to gistville.com and naijapose a lot. And its sad. No one says u shouldn't copy, bt give credit to the writer who spent quality time creating the article at least. Ngtrends recently did it and I was so pissed. Dey even cut out the site's logo on the pics and put theirs. Fakers!

mitchyy: I agree. It happens to gistville.com and naijapose a lot. And its sad. No one says u shouldn't copy, bt give credit to the writer who spent quality time creating the article at least. Ngtrends recently did it and I was so pissed. Dey even cut out the site's logo on the pics and put theirs. Fakers!

I do copy news contents from other sites to liven my blog, but I always make sure I reference them to give some credit cos it won't do me any harm.

I am serious, what can we do about this? I am ready

CSS strict will do this

there is one useless site called believers portal that just takes articles wriiten by others and makes no reference to where they got it from. Passing it off as thier own and its a christian based site .. ! the people there have literally copied almost all articles from one of my sites ..cause we walk closely with a pastor.. why not just reference where u got it from? nothing wrong in spreadig the word of God but men ...its painfull to see your work somewhere else without reference to the origin. i dont get it ..its not like its jokes where u cant find the origin. As we publish they goat copies it with photos within days ..to show how crooked they are there is no contact form or anything

funky medina: there is one useless site called believers portal that just takes articles wriiten by others and makes no reference to where they got it from. Passing it off as thier own and its a christian based site .. ! the people there have literally copied almost all articles from one of my sites ..cause we walk closely with a pastor.. why not just reference where u got it from? nothing wrong in spreadig the word of God but men ...its painfull to see your work somewhere else without reference to the origin. i dont get it ..its not like its jokes where u cant find the origin. As we publish they goat copies it with photos within days ..to show how crooked they are there is no contact form or anything

its really painful and something needs to be done. Copyrite shouldn't be applied only to hard copy materials, but also to online publications. A special court for copyrite needs to be established and judgment made fast for excellent performance. It hurts a lot, I must confess. We Nigerians lack so many moral ethics

webcityng: CSS strict will do this

How pls?