Thou Shalt Not Steal!
By Al Morel
Before I got into the web biz, a friend of mine hired his next-door-neighbor’s-boyfriend’s-cousin’s-roomate to design a new website for his company. Although he got a great price, it ended up costing him over $50,000 in legal fees and compensation. His web guy copied content off of another website.
We’ve all heard the current mantra, “Content is king” and to that end companies and individuals need to protect their assets.
One of my favorite websites is Mediashift at PBS. There was a recent article that speaks to the new tools out there for identifying sites that rip content.
Here’s the article: Attributor Helps Media Companies Crack Down on Web Scofflaws
