Reverse Image Lookup

Do you have photos or other images in an online portfolio or website that is for display purposes only? Have you ever wondered if someone is using your images without your permission? There's an interesting website called TinEye.com that let's you upload an image (or provide a URL to an image), and it will search billions or images online to see if it can find a match. It doesn't try to match the name of the file, but instead it matches the actual image itself. The technology seems pretty impressive, so give it a try yourself. It's free and fun!

Click here to check out TinEye.com

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Content Copyright Infringments

Are you worried about people stealing your content online? Have you ever written research-intensive articles or reports, and wanted to make sure nobody else was using your information online? The Internet is so large that the best Internet police for your rights, is yourself.

A website called Copyscape.com is a good tool to try to help protect your content from online thieves. The free version lets you put in a website URL to check, but the premium version ($.05 per search) lets you copy-n-paste content and many other features.

Using a tool like Copyscape.com allows you to find websites that are illegally using your content, and then you have the option of requesting them to remove your content and/or filing a copyright infringement notice.

There's a website simply called DMCA.com that has professional to help with this type of issue, but that's only if you're willing to pay about $200. Although, for only $10 a month (or $100 a year) they give you plagiarism scanning, image watermarking, badges for your website, tools for Do-It-Yourself takedowns, and more!


For other sites similar to Copyscape.com you could look at the top 10 results on MoreOfIt.com, which does a good job finding similar sites for websites you are looking at.

Click here to view the Top 10 similar sites to Copyscape.com

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Caution: Private Label Resale Rights Products

If you sell your own information products online, then you might be familiar with certain products that state they have, "Private Label Rights." Generally, these types of licenses allow you to do almost anything you want with the content provided. This might include using pieces of it on your website, in a newsletter, or even to repackage as a new product.

However, be careful what Private Label Rights (PLR) products you actually use. You don't want to be caught in a copyright infringement issue later on when you find out the material was stolen from someone else. It won't matter if you didn't know it was stolen material. If you use it, then it's at your own risk.

How can you be certain that the person selling the PLR product is the original creator and owner of that content? Do you personally know the person? Some people that use their "names" on websites and sales pages aren't even their real names. They are just "pen" names or made-up names.

After doing some "Googling" I found a website where someone had asked this question back in 2008, and an interesting discussion occurred from it. Click here to read the forum thread on the Warrior Forum. Nothing in the thread can be used as legal advice, but some of the people ended up saying that the PLR products weren't meant to be used the way the way most people thought, but to be more of a guide for others to create their own products.

It seems like a viscious cycle doesn't it? Another site called Plagiarism Today has an article called, "The Dangers of Private Label Rights (PLR) Content," that does a better job explaining some of the issues around Private Label Products, and about who normally tries to benefit from them. Plagiarism Today also has some other very interesting articles around Plagiarism, so you might want to take a deeper look at it.

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