Tired of people copying your content? Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner!
I came across this site quite randomly on Google, and thought it was pretty darned clever. Copyscape will scan any given page, and look for copies of it throughout the Internet..
If you wish to add a banner to your vBulletin, save a banner from their banner page and name it as copyscape.gif, upload it to your images/misc directory, edit your footer template and place the following below the copyright stuff:
HTML Code:
<div class="smallfont" align="center"><a href="http://www.copyscape.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/copyscape.gif" border="0" alt="Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape" title="Do not copy content from this page. Plagiarism will be detected by Copyscape." /></a></div>
Using rel="nofollow" means that you aren't simply increasing their search engine rankings or whatever by using the banner. Unfortunately, I can't find any method of making the link point directly to the page that is displayed on as this would be hugely beneficial - but perhaps this isn't possible.
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Darkwaltz4 has cracked it.!
If you would like to make the banner link point directly to Copyscape searching your forum's URL, use the code posted here instead of the code above.
It doesnt CLAIM that it is directly plagiarised, simply finding places that happen to match large portions of your content. Usually (although widespread things like vb and hacks like that are exceptions) content is wholly unique, so it will be more successful in finding sites that did rip you off. Its still up to you to click those links and check. Its done with a machine so it does it mechanically :-p For instance a site who simply paraphrased your content would most likely not show up.
Their service isn't that hot from my very limited test. It accused a bunch of sites of plagiarism from my site - and the content isn't there. It picks up the stock vbulletin guest welcome and considers that plagiarism. Not much use for vbulletin owners.
You could ofcourse, just whack one of the images on your site??? sure it doesn't so anything, except look as if youre protected?
Neat. I'd like to use this.
I know it's not a fool proof method but just stating that there's protection is better than nothing.
I'd like to have this show up in only one forum though.
Could I save the code in a template then make a plugin that uses a conditional to load the template?
This is new ground for me, so be gentle.
I've got the conditional figured out as I just put in the "disable printable version" mod with a conditional on the forum id instead of the user id and it works great. I want to do the same with this banner code, but I'm guessing the code above wouldn't live well inside a plug in (I'm guessing).
or would it?
10-13-2005, 10:00 PM
11-02-2005, 01:42 AM
