Nanci and I love finding out people are linking to our posts, but too often we find that another site is lifting our content specifically for a way to show their ads. As the Creative Commons license declaration  on the left says,

The content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

You may excerpt or reproduce our content on your site without additional permission as long as you credit the post’s author (and optionally the blog name) for non-commercial use. In addition, placing advertisements between the reuse of our post title and the post content is strictly prohibited. In the opinion of this blog’s owners and authors this constitutes using our content for commercial purposes.

Contacting the blog owner doesn’t seem to do any good, and our readers have let us know they want us to ID the content thieves. This page will be updated frequently to identify those sites we find using our content without proper attribution and/or with their ad surrounded by our content.We’re going to show the URI of the offending post as text rather than as a link because we don’t want to send traffic their way that may help them make more money off our content. I’ll also try to remember to post the additions at the top of the list so you can see the newest offenders more easily.

Updated 12 October: You can now see the latest content thievery on in the sidebar on the right side of our site. That will let you see when we have found another site using our content in violation of our license.

Due to the nature of this page we’re  disabling comments and trackbacks. We appreciate readers who want to help spread the word of what we’re doing and we hope it may inspire other bloggers to do something similar.

Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Monday, 12 October)
Our post: Captain Torre, I trust you know what to do with a broom
Their article:http://baseballbriefs.com/tags/mlb/nancib-2009-10-11-captain-torre-i-trust-you-know-what-to-do-with-a-broom-.php
Infringement: No Attribution

Site: Oujda Times (Added Sunday, 4 October)
Our post: It took a week, but they got it done
Their article: http://news.oujdatimes.com/it-took-a-week-but-they-got-it-done-3730
Infringement: No Attribution, and it looks like the entire site’s purpose is to support their website-based ad farm

Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Sunday, 4 October)
Our post: It took a week, but they got it done
Their article:http://baseballbriefs.com/tags/mlb/nancib-2009-10-04-it-took-a-week-but-they-got-it-done-.php
Infringement: No Attribution

Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Sunday, 27 September)
Our post: Forget scheduling a tee time for next week
Their article: http://baseballbriefs.com/tags/mlb/nancib-2009-09-27-forget-scheduling-a-tee-time-for-next-week-.php
Infringement: No Attribution

Site: LinuxArticles (Added Sunday, 6 September)
Our post: Here we go again
Their article: http://www.linuxarticles.info/?p=5670
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content (Will these asshats ever learn?)

Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: Good news for open source loving musos
Their article: http://www.linuxarticles.info/?p=3062
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content

Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: There’s a new way to read the Boston Globe
Their article: http://www.linuxarticles.info/?p=3747
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content

Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: Peng’s links for Monday, 21 September
Their article: http://www.linuxarticles.info/?p=6627
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content. As bloody usual.