Complaint Review: Linda Hayes - cool-info.org - Internet
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Linda Hayes - cool-info.org stole article (plagiarized) - literary thief - Warning to writers! Internet
*UPDATE Employee: Linda Hayes was banned from Associated Content
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I had sent an original article in answer to an ad for writers to jobs@cool-info.org on October 29, 2008, for an allegedly new Web site called www.cool-info.org to be launched in six weeks. I never got a response or acknowledgment of receipt. Then on November 9, 2008, someone named Linda Hayes published my article, word-for-word, on www.associatedcontent.com (and a Google search also shows it as appearing on pages for www.topix.com), using her name as the author of the article. As of the date of this report (December 28, 2008), there is no www.cool-info.org Web site in existence. Although www.associatedcontent.com has inactivated Linda Hayes as a contributor and no longer makes the article available in active content, it still shows up on a cached page. I have since contacted jobs@cool-info.org and the Web sites for Associated Content and Topix, but no one has responded yet about this clear case of plagiarism.
Theresa
GARDNERVILLE, Nevada
U.S.A.
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 12/28/2008 11:45 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/linda-hayes-cool-infoorg/internet/linda-hayes-cool-infoorg-stole-article-plagiarized-literary-thief-warning-to-writ-405500. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content
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#1 UPDATE Employee
Linda Hayes was banned from Associated Content
AUTHOR: Laura - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Theresa, sorry that your content was plagiarized. That user has been banned and the article removed from Associated Content. We sympathize with your frustration, our writers are also occasionally ripped off by other people who copy and publish their original work elsewhere. Associated Content is constantly fighting this type of plagiarism by running every piece of submitted content through Attributor and responding immediately when we are notified that infringing content has been published on the site.
The article is still cached in search by the search engine that you used to look for it.
Search engines may retain cached versions of old content in their results. We have no control over third party websites, but as soon as these search engines revisit the content the cached versions will be replaced with new versions that include any changes. This usually will happen within a few weeks. If it does not, you can try contacting the search website directly to ask them to remove the content from their results.
If you have any further questions or issues you can email admin [at] associatedcontent.com or visit this link: http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_infringement.shtml.
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