I’ve heard a lot of bloggers fell victim to these so called “Copycats”. Lucky for me I haven’t catch anyone yet! Now, copycats are those who wants the attention and the success but too lazy to do it right. Instead of creating their own work, they find the enjoyment of stealing someone else writings or works for their own gain.

If someone steals your article from your blog, that only means one thing… “Your works are great, and your writing skills are good.” But that’s not the point. It’s not good! That’s copyright violation and you have to do something about it very seriously to prevent it to happen.

Here are some ways I’ve gathered to do the job for you and make it harder for those who only love two words “Copy and Paste”!

1. Get Creative Commons License

Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting others know what they can and can’t do with your work. Acquiring a license is free and you will be given with a badge that you can put into your site or blog to warn everyone that your work is reserved.

License your work now.

2. Add water mark to your images

This is the most effective way to prevent you image or video works from being used by others. Though there are few geeky manipulators who can remove the water marks, most still don’t know how to remove it so it is still advisable to add water mark to your image works.

For easy water marking, here is a free software that you can use to put water mark to your image:

download: Image Water Marker 1.0 (6.43KB) added: 02/01/2009 clicks: 393 description: A free software that lets you easily add water mark to your images.

Or, you can do it online for free. Visit Free Online Watermarker

3. Disable right-click to your blog

Now, here is what I think that most neat one. It can protect both your images and your articles from being copied easily.

Since our copycats love to do the right-click routine, why not we disable this function to discourage them first hand. I know, this can’t protect your works completely because they can still copy your article. The only difference is they will have to type the whole content manually.

Here is a javascript you can use to disable right-click into your site:

download: No Right Click Code (378B) added: 02/01/2009 clicks: 373 description: A small javascript that disables the right-click function on a site or blog.

NOTE: Please copy the script right between your HEAD tags.

Or, you can use the Blog Protector plugin for wordpress  to easily disable the right click feature on your blog.

4. Disable Copy and Paste

Disabling the right-click function on your site or blog sometimes has disadvantages for your regular visitors. To solve the problem, here is a neat script that will only disable the “Copy and Paste” function.

download: No Copy and Paste Code (181B) added: 02/01/2009 clicks: 363 description: A small code that disables the copy and paste function in a site or blog.

NOTE: Please insert the code inside your BODY tag.