Website plagiarism

[technodup]

Can anything be done about this? A competing company has lifted an entire section of my site, running to several pages and has copied it entirely. Headings the same, content the same, worded ever so slightly differently to evade Google but essentially the same right down to the phrases and words used.

I'm open to all suggestions, legit and otherwise.

[VEX]

Play the at their own game and put a headline on yours, thanking them for their plagiarism and accepting it as a form of compliment that you are doing it better then them.

Depending on your customers, the point won't be lost and could very easily increase your market share.

[jonamv8]

Can you provide both URLs for reference? I have experience of this but need to understand how similar before advising

[Fitz666]

Consider using a mountweazel for proof.

[F31Simon]

I would try sending them a DCMA takedown notification, might be enough to scare them off.

https://www.dmca.com/faq/UK-based-DMCA-Takedown-or...

[technodup]

Fitz666 said:

Consider using a mountweazel for proof.

That's a great word I didn't know before. God knows how I'll ever use it in conversation though

[SpeedBash]

technodup said:

Fitz666 said:

Consider using a mountweazel for proof.

That's a great word I didn't know before. God knows how I'll ever use it in conversation though

ala Matt Damon & Ben Affleck when they were shopping their Good Will Hunting Script around Hollywood.

Apologies in advance, clip has Harvey Weinstein in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=623Es9ZYmt8

[sutoka]

I see this a lot in my line of work, people send in supposedly original content for publication and a quick check reveals they've lifted it straight out of another magazine published the month previous.

Someone I worked with over decade ago runs this marketing agency exclusively for small businesses. Literally every thing they've done and put up on instagram as their original work has been copied and pasted from other sources. Logos nicked off Etsy, marketing guides copied off another site word for word for sale at £150.

How they have been getting away with it. I mean there are similarities in a lot of design and creative work but it's more than a coincidence.

[Dr Interceptor]

I had it once... Another company in our industry lifted the whole top header off one of my ecommerce sites with a custom basket/search box that was a totally unique design, by me.

One email with two screen shots made it very obvious, and they took their website down while it was modified.