Is there a service that will monitor the web for copyright infringement?

[hassleback]

The site www.copyscape.com is great, although I think it's too sensitive (it catches too much including many minor copies that are not worth pursuing.)

My main problem is that it takes too much time to monitor the Internet for copies of my sites. I'd certainly be willing to pay $ to a service that automatically checked and sent me an e-mail when it discovered a copy.

Does anyone know of such a service?

[KevinSource]

If you find one will you let me know. I know how time consuming it can be.

Thanks!

[randfish]

It's something of a workaround, but the free Google alerts are a very good way to detect copies of your content that get put up - just type in 5 and 6 word phrases in quotes that are direct copies of your site. In addition, you can reduce that to 3-4 word phrases so you can watch as your competition springs up too.

[Nick W]

http://www.copyscape.com

[DianeV]

I'd also pay for a service that reported copying of our site, say by email.

[DianeV]

Thanks, hutcheson. I've already found a few people infringing our copyrights. One even allowed as to how he "had a search engine expert work on our site" ... but immediately removed the text.

I send email cease and desist notices to people who copy our site(s). This time I included, at the bottom of the email:

By the way: http://copyscape.com

Very effective.

My favorite is the person who copied one of our testimonials. I don't know what they're thinking: if you can't get a good testimonial on your own, copy one from someone who earned it?

[Nick W]

hmmm... i missed the link in the original post, aplogies..

All of these things are quite useless if you syndicate via rss....

[DianeV]

Nick, I don't understand. What's syndicated as RSS from your blog would be regular text on one of your pages, so would copies still not be able to be matched?

[Nick W]

That's the point. Copyscape would throw up to many false postives for it to be usefull on a well syndicated website - it's one thing to display the rss syndicated content but it's another thing entirely to claim it as your own...