Are You Stealing Blog Content?
I regularly talk to a real estate agents who publish their own blogs. Sometimes I will hear someone say: “Why should I pay for content when I can just copy stories from online news sources or other newsletters that people send me? Why should I pay for something that’s free?”
When I point out that this is actually stealing content I usually get no response. People who do this either don’t realize they are stealing other people’s writing, or they prefer not to think about it.
But let’s think about it for a minute.
If you copy a news story from an online source like, say, Report on Business, the Washington Post or the Punkiedoodle Corners Express, you are taking the work prepared and paid for by someone else and claiming it as your own.
This is like walking down the street and walking off with the neighbour’s bicylce because it is sitting on the sidewalk.
And just giving them “credit” – by citing the source is not enough. You are still stealing their content. How would you like it if someone from Hustler or the National Socialist Daily picked up one of your original articles and republished it under your byline?
The reason bloggers steal content is either because they don’t have the resources to report and write stuff of their own, or they are not prepared to pay for others to write it for them.
The bottom line is that published content on the web is not free for the taking, unless it explicitly says so. For example, there are “article sites” where you can copy and republish content. But this has conditions: you are not supposed to change anything, and you must include all backlinks as they are in the original.
The same goes for Youtube videos. Video producers are usually happy to have you embed their videos in your blog because this gives them exposure they would not otherwise have. If they don’t want others to embed their videos they can set it up that way in Youtube.
This is why BlogEasy is so unique. BlogEasy provides you with content that you can republish, as long as you are registered with the BlogEasy system. It is original content written by BlogEasy writers.
For BlogEasy members it is simple. There is no need to steal content from legitimate writers and news sources. One inexpensive membership gives you publishing rights to hundreds of original articles and news reports with new material added on a daily basis.
