Being a writer is wonderful. You get to do something that you dream of as a living, getting up each day and using creativity so that it provides enjoyment to others is a wonderful feeling for sure.
Yet with each story, article or poem written there will always be those who steal it.
Once a month I have to spend an entire day crawling through countless copy written poems of mine, searching Google to ensure that nobody out there is taking my work as their own. Some are co-operative, they add my name as the writer, and I am fine with that. I have never had issues with people using my work in any capacity, just as long as they name me as the writer.
But there are cases where I have to fill in the tiresome DMCA forms and then it takes time for it all to be resolved. The case today was this blog
It does not take a genius to realise that I wrote this poem. It’s featured in two of my books, has been visited over 60,000 times on my blog and has been used in countless productions, websites, businesses, and even tattoos (that still scares me!) around the world.
It’s not the fact that people steal my work that bothers me. It’s the fact that they put their own name on it. It’s like seeing a Van Gogh and adding a name in marker pen. It’s not funny, it’s not clever, it’s theft, and you just get to look like an arse.
For anyone reading my work, all you have to do is add my name, and you can use it in any capacity you choose.
Back to the DMCA forms.
