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Google to See if Your Work Has Been Stolen

Blog Posted by Faye Gibson: 8/29/2015 1:29:00 PM

Hello All,

Cassarah's blog got me thinking and I googled some of my poems. I then thought to google the first line of some of my most viewed poems and it was very interesting.

My poem "Sea Bride" has been stolen by someone on DeviantArt and retitled to "Ocean." I would not have caught this if I had not googled the text instead of the title. I am doing what I can to see that the offending person takes it down. What a jerk!!

Also found the same poem quoted in a Jamacian news paper article about Sandals resorts. There was no acknowledgment of authorship or copyright plus they butchered the last line. ARRRGGGGHHHH

I have also found it unacknowledged on someone's blog.

I haven't had time to look at much more, but isn't it amazing that someone would be so low as to actually steal your work, retitle it and post it as their own?

I recommend checking out your work when and if you have time.

Faye

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Robert
Lindley

Date: 9/16/2015 9:19:00 PM

JASMINE BURBEK, just had over 7 poems removed from this site that she stole. Her poem Blowing in the wind won in a contest was actually a 1970's era song written by Shel Silverstein. She now has promptly changed her name to Misunderstood poetess. And wrote a hate filled poem, "STUPID OLD MAN" about an old man that turned her in here .. ACTUALLY HER POEM IS LIBEL...(LIES) Then blocked that person from commenting on her new poems. lol

Robert
Lindley

Date: 9/15/2015 7:20:00 PM

GRETCHEN CRUZ STOLE THIS SONG ADDED HER NAME POSTED IT HERE AS HERS! http://www.lyricsmania.com/warped_and_twisted_lyrics_bandaid.html Lyrics to Warped And Twisted Harsh words & violent blows Hidden secrets nobody knows Kind thoughts are a vivid memory But im still here living in misery. Eyes are open, hands are fisted Deep inside I'm warped & twisted. chorus So many tricks & so many lies *artist note This song was made by Chris Miller (R.I.P 1985-2002) and Amanda Davidson. Dedicated to Chris. For Chris. Sleep well Chris

Heather
Ober

Date: 9/14/2015 8:45:00 PM

Wow, I found a number of my poems that have been copied to other sites too. But (so far) it seems like my name has at least been credited where my poems are used. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Faye. It's such a shame that people have the audacity to steal your poetry and the poetry of others here on PS.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 9/13/2015 11:58:00 AM

1. Blowing in the wind 2. 08/25/2015 Cavalier of the night 3. 08/25/2015 Cold dark corner 4. 08/23/2015 Rainy days 5.08/21/2015 Key ingredient 6. 08/21/2015 Sea kissed life 7. 08/21/2015 Jealousy ^^^ ALL POEMS SHOWN ABOVE BY THIS JASMINE BURBEK ALL ARE LISTED AT EARLY DATES BY OTHER PEOPLE EACH UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME, ONE IS EVEN A SONG FROM THE 1970's! LINKS PROVING THIS I HAVE DOZENS 1. HER POEM RETITLED- BLOWING IN THE WIND , is http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/daddywhatiflyricschords.html http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobbybare/daddywhatif.html WRITTEN BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN IN THE 1970'S.

Jan Allison
Date: 9/13/2015 3:24:00 PM

Oh Robert this is so sad I have seen other's here blatantly plagerising works - one person posted 400 poems in a 3 month period many many of them plagerised - I do hope soup takes this seriously and removes these poems asap:-) hugs Jan xx

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/13/2015 12:04:00 PM

http://xxthe--greed-lerxx.deviantart.com/journal/The-Cold-Dark-Corner-421997310 The Cold Dark Corner~ by xxThe--Greed-lerxx, Dec 24, 2013, 2:15:43 PM Journals / Personal There's a cold dark corner in the back of my room, it speaks to me and says I'm coming for you. As I lie on my bed in the fetal position, my eyes are closed hoping and wishing.

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/13/2015 12:02:00 PM

(Daddy what if the wind stopped blowin', what would happen then?) http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=8560 http://www.metrolyrics.com/daddy-what-if-lyrics-bobby-bare.html http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/shel-silverstein-2/daddy-what-if/ http://www.lyricsmania.com/daddy,_what_if_lyrics_shel_silverstein.html http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/daddywhatiflyricschords.html

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/13/2015 12:01:00 PM

2. Cavalier of the night- http://mysterypoetry.blogspot.com POETRY AND WRITING BY KALCEE CLORNEL Copyright: ©Kalcee Clornel 3. Cold dark corner http://xxthe--greed-lerxx.deviantart.com/journal/The-Cold-Dark-Corner-421997310 The Cold Dark Corner~ by xxThe--Greed-lerxx, Dec 24, 2013, 2:15:43 PM http://hellopoetry.com/words/508382/fetal-position/poems/?page=5 Sandra k May 28, 2014 http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/cold-dark-corner © Blake Duffy More By Blake Duffy Published on March 2009 Cold Dark Corner There's a cold dark corner in the back of my room, it speaks to me and says I'm coming for you

Paul
Callus

Date: 9/10/2015 6:41:00 PM

I went back to DeviantArt and found that my "stolen" poem is in fact still there. I also found more poems plagiarized by the same person: "(A) Safe Harbor" by Katherine Stella; "From My Window" by Elaine George; "Almost Dreaming" by David Mohn (now 'Daydreaming').

Faye Gibson
Date: 9/11/2015 1:09:00 PM

I know these things will happen, but if I can I want to fight people like this. If we all just say, "well, it happens" . . . it will happen more and more.

Faye Gibson
Date: 9/11/2015 1:08:00 PM

Hi Paul, I had to join DeviantArt and then fill out their complaint form. They had me complete a form for stolen works. I had to include links to my poem here and to where the other person had posted my poem. They took it down immediately. If he has three verifiable complaints, he is supposed to be kicked off the site.

John
Long

Date: 9/8/2015 7:18:00 PM

I've tried googling a few titles of my own poems, but nothing has been found. And some of them, the title is also the first line or another line of a poem. Since your poems have been online, maybe it's time you had them published. Nobody would dare copy a currently copy righted poem.

Jan Allison
Date: 9/13/2015 3:23:00 PM

I had my 'winter' poem published in a book it still got plagerised! hugs Jan xx

Edlynn
Nau

Date: 9/8/2015 6:30:00 PM

Maybe a poetry Website IS NOT a good idea before it's out in print. Even P Soup adding a Copyright doesn't help (no registration of the document). Edlynn Nau

Robert
Lindley

Date: 9/8/2015 12:21:00 AM

GRETCHEN CRUZ, stole my poem and reposted it here. You guys have that poem listed here and at your sister sites as her--copyrighted as hers. This important issue needs to be resolved. I have sent 4 or 5 prior requests for administration here to make a decision and do what is right! Otherwise in my opinion you guys are aiding her in this theft by your inaction... Contact me either here or by way of my email . Robert J. Lindley p.s. I find it very strange that this request has gone unanswered this long.. SENT TONIGHT TO ADMIN HERE..

Paul
Callus

Date: 9/6/2015 7:45:00 AM

Back again Faye. My abuse link to "Unspoken Words" was: http://ljosalfrmanen.deviantart.com/art/Unspoken-Words-Engelsk-543525431 I went back to check, and the poem must have now been deleted, although DeviantArt have not informed me of any action taken.

Paul
Callus

Date: 9/6/2015 7:09:00 AM

Hi Faye! Just realized you had this blog up. Thank you for alerting me about my poem "Unspoken Words" which was posted on DeviantArt under the name ljosalfrmanen. I contacted DeviantArt straight away, but so far have received only an acknowledgement!! // paul

Paul Callus
Date: 9/6/2015 7:47:00 AM

I have kept a screen shot of the plagiarized poem.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 8/31/2015 9:56:00 PM

Hell Hound by Gretchen Cruz - Poem Zoom | Poems www.poemzoom.com/poem/hell_hound_659022 HELL-HOUND Deep in the darkest pit Where anguished screams resound Evil thoughts feed the it Fanged, demon like hell-hound No mercy for those so lost ... Thats my poem --word for word!! Administration here has been notified.

Robert
Lindley

Date: 8/31/2015 9:35:00 PM

Robert J. Lindley 2/14/2015 http://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/my_poems.aspx Edit Hell-Hound Allows No Souls Out 443 comments 2/14/2015 ---------- Gretchen Cruz http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet.aspx?ID=56415 04/01/2015 Hell hound 161 Blank verse ---------- This woman (while a member here) stole my poem here at the Soup while a member posting here at the Soup. Check the dates. And that poem I had written many decades ago! Had edited it to make it shorter to present here! What AUDACITY!!!!!!!!!

Robert Lindley
Date: 8/31/2015 9:38:00 PM

I AM NOW SENDING THIS TO ADMIN HERE! She has not posted a poem in about 4 months now. May be has departed.. What freaking nerve! Stole my poem and then changed the title a bit and reposted it here! This is the vermin we deal with on this type of thing.

Casarah
Nance

Date: 8/31/2015 1:54:00 PM

Yay I just noticed the copywrite on the bottom of our poems too...That is great...! :-)

Robert
Lindley

Date: 8/31/2015 12:52:00 PM

I think they just answered my request sent to them , maybe(?) If so fast action and a huge bravo!!!!

Jan
Allison

Date: 8/31/2015 12:18:00 PM

FAYE - I have just noticed - all our poems now have copyright and our name by them -:-) Hugs jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 8/31/2015 12:51:00 PM

Yes I had wondered about that too Faye but so good to see they acted on Robert's suggestion:-) hugs jan xx

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/31/2015 12:50:00 PM

That's great! Thank you, TPS. I hope they handled it in a way that it does not show up on a contest administrator's page. LOL

Robert
Lindley

Date: 8/30/2015 4:50:00 PM

I started to Google verses from my poems. I found this second poem I searched. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetrymusic/567222916747882?fref=nf This guy stole my poem from here... title and word for word... entire poem Sex Wrapped In A Song "I saw the dark in your praise," as you spread on that rich glaze Treasure I sought cried play along, this girl has sex wrapped in a song! Not sure, but looks like to advertise with, etc.

Jan Allison
Date: 8/31/2015 12:18:00 PM

Robert - I have just noticed - all our poems now have copyright and our name by them -:-) Hugs jan xx

Robert Lindley
Date: 8/30/2015 5:45:00 PM

I am sending that to admin here to address this issue. I hope that other poets here will do the same.

Robert Lindley
Date: 8/30/2015 5:43:00 PM

Poem Zoom » Poems » Sex Wrapped In A Song by Robert Lindley At this site shown above my poem is clearly shown to be be copyrighted. Yet at PoetrySoup.com it is not. I am finding dozens of my poems stolen and suspect that no clear copyrightwarning presented here at the Soup leads many to think they can just steal our poems.. My request and suggestion is admin here CLEARLY SHOWS each poem copyrighted immediately upon its first presentation here. You do that on your sister site-- why not here!?? Recent example-- found today Poetry/music | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetrymusic/567222916747882 Sex Wrapped In A Song "I saw the dark in your praise," as you spread on that rich glaze Treasure I sought cried play along, this girl has sex wrapped in a song!

Jan
Allison

Date: 8/30/2015 9:34:00 AM

Faye your blog has been brilliant thank you - I have had a VERY quick response from 'All poetry' and my 'winter poem' posted as 'snow' has now been removed.:-) hugs jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 8/30/2015 1:27:00 PM

Yes I just used the 'contact us' at the bottom of the page - you add your e mail address and your 'concern' I posted the name of the person who had used my poem and 'their' poem with an amended title and one word changed I copied my poem from poetry soup and the date it was posted here - they acted VERY quickly. :-) hugs Jan xx

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 8/30/2015 1:20:00 PM

Jan, can you contact them without joining. If so, I will let them know of my concerns quickly too.

Jan Allison
Date: 8/30/2015 12:29:00 PM

I had never thought to google lines from poems Faye - I had submitted this poem to Casarah's most read poem contest - have found this man has it posted twice - thanks for opening my eyes to this :-) hugs Jan xx

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/30/2015 12:24:00 PM

I am glad All Poetry was so quick to respond. I have not heard from DeviantArt. That site is rather bulky and not easy to navigate. I know there is a limit to what any of us can do, but if we all just turn away, these people win.

Tim
Smith

Date: 8/30/2015 7:34:00 AM

I found my poem "Help" (about a candy bar) used in an advertisement for chia cinnamon crunch. Hmmmm

Jan Allison
Date: 8/30/2015 9:35:00 AM

Contact the company Tim that is disgusting! :-) hugs Jan xx

Jan
Allison

Date: 8/29/2015 7:20:00 PM

Just found my most well read poem 'winter' written in October 2014 under the title 'snow' and posted on 'all poetry' copyrighted by a person called Donald E. Bramley - I have complained to the site! Thanks Faye i have only ever googled poems under my name not simply googled words from my poem

Jan Allison
Date: 8/30/2015 4:02:00 AM

I have found he had changed one word on the first line from snow to cover - every other word is mine - still plagerism to me! will be interesting to read 'his' other works see if they are really 'his' work... I wonder... mmmmm:-( hugs jan xx

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 8/29/2015 9:05:00 PM

Jan, I think Allpoetry must be inhabited by a bunch of low class creeps. Unbelievable! Please complain, and while you are at it, let them know about me too. If I ever find a lot of free time, I need to check that place out more thoroughly and write down names of anything else of mine maybe stolen to tell the staff over there about. I am sure there must be poets over there stealing like crazy from other poets here at Soup! (I like to think Soup is the GOOD site with honest people on it. Hope I am not being blinded by love!)

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 8/29/2015 4:58:00 PM

Faye, I just googled the first line of Cinder Girl, my most "popular" poem. I see already it has been stolen by a least five people. That was just the first page of google. I don't know how to navigate blogs. Bloggers are claiming it. Someone at Allpoetry, some are calling it "untitled" and claiming it. I would never have time to track down all my best poems and try to have them removed from these sites. It sickens me that people are trying to say they wrote my stuff, but honestly, how do we have time to sign up to all these web sites just to let the people know? It took me months to learn how to navigate Soup. I can only imagine the plight of other poems I wrote! (Imitation is flattery ha!)

Robert
Lindley

Date: 8/29/2015 2:33:00 PM

I have been using Goggle to do this for about 9 months now. Found several dozen cases of some of my (700)poems being stolen. Also found many cases that were "fair use" and cited me as the author. Those are legal and I have no problem with. Even found one person that pretended he co-wrote my poem with me and then went on to explain what the poem meant! He could not have been more wrong on its meaning. To date , I just check out of idle curiosity, have taken no action at all.

Jan Allison
Date: 8/29/2015 7:59:00 PM

I've found one of my poems written for one of Shadow's contest and it is credited to her... but at least it is credited - many simply appear on pages nameless - thanks to the blog I have found my first poem written by me in October yet copyrighted by someone 6 months ago:-( hugs jan xx

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 8/29/2015 5:01:00 PM

I think the fair use are very nice. Be careful about putting names of judges on bottom of your poems. I don't even remember entering Cinder girl in John Heck's contest but I must have. His name is shown as the author of it at some weibsite.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 8/29/2015 4:32:00 PM

oh my gosh, Robert. The idiot did not even know the meaning of the poem he claimed to have helped write. Good grief.

Robert Lindley
Date: 8/29/2015 3:41:00 PM

Several cases I found on mine they used the poem to make a profit directly or to sell a service/course that they offered. Both are illegal, as mine are copyrighted.

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/29/2015 3:04:00 PM

It is what it is. I do not mind someone quoting it for enjoyment purposes if they include my name and copyright date. For business purposes and to steal it, it is really low down.

Casarah
Nance

Date: 8/29/2015 1:45:00 PM

So now I google that Little Wishes poem I mentioned in my blog and have found a bunch more people using and not sighting me...where is the legal line I have to stand on...there is one person using it in a business sense and that does not seem fair but there is another who says Author Unknown...and another says I do not take credit as writing this after they posted it but still is without my name... what would be the next course of action, contacting the site that is using our works?

Jan Allison
Date: 8/29/2015 6:43:00 PM

I have found many of my poems especially haiku used by others - I simply mail them and ask them to credit me as the author - most are happy to do so saying they didn't know it was mine - one asked me to prove copyright - I simply directed them to poetry soup - they soon credited me as the author! I am delighted to see my work go to a wider audience - maybe the answer is to put your name on a poem - and if it is for a contest to add it to a poem AFTER a contest has been judged:-) hugs Jan xx

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 8/29/2015 4:36:00 PM

that's too bad, because I think they know full well that it is YOUR baby. Shame on them!!

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/29/2015 1:51:00 PM

This is totally new territory for me. I have contacted DeviantArt--had to join it to do so. Also, contacted the newspaper in Jamaica and the blogger. I don't know where that will go, but I am pursuing it. I hope some others who have been doing this longer than you and I will contribute to this blog and give their opinions. Maybe Team Poetry Soup will chime in...what do you think, TP.

Casarah
Nance

Date: 8/29/2015 1:31:00 PM

wow...i would have never thought of that! Now I'm going to keep googling and see what else I can find, thanks for the flipside of the coin!

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/29/2015 1:36:00 PM

Also one of Elaine George's. This guy is something else. He is from Norway. Send me a soupie if you want his name.

Faye Gibson
Date: 8/29/2015 1:33:00 PM

Just discovered that the same guy has stolen one of Paul Callus's poems. Will let him know.