Help, Call The Police, Someone Stole My Work

By Ade Oduyemi
They say imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery: In July, I posted Estate Planning for the Entrepreneur on the Maximum Inheritance Specialists website, I subsequently posted the article on squido. I was some what taken aback to find the article had be bastardised. Someone liked the article so much, he picked up, 'spun it' so it resembled a form of English spoken perhaps on Uranus, and submitted it, successfully for publication to an article directory.

Now, the concepts discussed in my writing were hardly original, they've been around for centuries - I imagine since the first business was privately held - the obvious exception being the attribution to George Bush. Every writer, irrespective of the level to which he is gifted or prolific wants to be quoted - that is the essence of writing - otherwise I'd keep my thoughts in my head, but no one wants his work ripped off. There is a point to article writing - the great value is in the key word phrases attached to the article. My articles tend to contain phrases such as 'last will and testament' 'lasting power of attorney' 'inheritance planning' and so on, as they are said to be useful in boosting one's SEO efforts. All this fellow had to do was attribute the work to me. Or is this what we'd call a back handed compliment? In fairness the directory on which the stolen work was published took down the article in a few hours. Attribute, Do not Steal. Plagiarism is theft.