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Yes, there is an easy recourse. You send the infringer AND the hosting service a DMCA copyright infringment notice. Give the infringer a few days to remove the material. If he doesn't the web site host will remove the offending material for him (and probably remove his hosting account). There is a standard format for DMCA notices and if you do not follow ...


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A bit more information for you: Sample letter to the infringer Website Copyright Cease and Desist Order To: You are in violation, as you are using a number of works that I own the copyright to. These appear on a site operated by you at <>. I have reserved all rights to this work, which was first published on <> on <>. Your unauthorized use of ...


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I'm actually dealing with this right now. Before resorting to a DCMA I've contacted the blog owner direct and politely asked him to credit me with the content & link back or remove it (and I've explained why I need this). If he does not respond within 2-3 days I'll contact the host with the same (polite) request and ask them to forward it to the ...


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Disclaimer: I'm experienced at web but shallow on mobile apps After reading the question body, I think the question title would better be: Mobile site VS Native App - cost and benefit I use "site" here to refer to your web app that lives on server but not client device. There are two ways to build a HTML5 mobile site: Responsive Design Basic: Use ...


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Here is (a very little) list: Pros: Use advanced features available only using native apis Better integration on the device Usable offline (with cached RSS feeds for example) Better performances Cons: Far more expensive Far more work User experience to reproduce carefully in order to be coherent between all apps, but user experience have to be ...


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One of the ways would be to find out the influential twitter users that tweet information abut college students. You can check, http://wefollow.com/twitter/student Then write a twitter bot to aggregate and filter the tweets from the users you find appropriate for your demographic.


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Those sites generally do not get permission. As an interesting example, take Google itself. They consolidate feeds (and whole, copyrighted pages) and republish with attribution and links. A lawyer might tell you otherwise (and you should heed the lawyer over me), but generally it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission and all that. In practice no ...


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I have to deal with content scrapers almost on a weekly basis. Having filed numerous DMCAs, I have written a blog post on how to deal with content scrapers Also check the DMCA template I use.


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If you put your entire posts content into your RSS feed then that's what's going to output to feed readers, like Google reader (who monetizes against your feed)... which is not your website also... so why do you care that its being viewed somewhere else then? You can limit your rss feed to show just the titles or even limited amounts of your posts... just ...



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