Is Article Spinning legal?
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Yeah, the individual sentences are short, say 30 days or so. The bitch is that they can get you with one count for every unique instance of an article. So, if x == # of sentences, and y == unique variations of each sentence, you could be looking at y^x months in jail.
This thread http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/99028-10-day-challenge-starting-0-a.html has some of the WF legal folks chiming in with the legalities of spinning, copyright, and the ethics of plagiarism.
I admit, I spun one article at some low point in my life. Couldn't look at myself in mirror, everytime I was sick seeing my spinner's face. I deleted this spun article and did 50 hours of unpaid work for charity the original author of article had chosen.
Ahhh
I am never going to be the same after that! Either way, this is a touchy topic. Technically it is illegal to take someone else's work and reword it. However, it would cost a lot of money to prove the similarity between to articles is in fact infringement.
I am never going to be the same after that! Either way, this is a touchy topic. Technically it is illegal to take someone else's work and reword it. However, it would cost a lot of money to prove the similarity between to articles is in fact infringement.
Illegal, no. You can do whatever you want to your website. It's Your website.
Now, if you want Google or other major search engines to send you traffic, then you have to adhere to their "rules" or "guidelines". Look up "duplicate content" and "SEO" for more information. If you want to get traffic your own way, whatever way it is, that avenue has some "rules", whether it is a search engine, a social media website, or WF.
Putting plagiarized content on your website is not going to result in the Cyber Police knocking on your door. The author can come after you though, cause that whole copyrighting thing.
Now, if you want Google or other major search engines to send you traffic, then you have to adhere to their "rules" or "guidelines". Look up "duplicate content" and "SEO" for more information. If you want to get traffic your own way, whatever way it is, that avenue has some "rules", whether it is a search engine, a social media website, or WF.
Putting plagiarized content on your website is not going to result in the Cyber Police knocking on your door. The author can come after you though, cause that whole copyrighting thing.
The only problem you have to be worried about is if the original owner of the work finds out and comes after you.
Its not illegal to spin an article but once you use it as yours it becomes plagiarism.
Its not illegal to spin an article but once you use it as yours it becomes plagiarism.
That's why you write your own (or outsource it) and spin that. No one can give you shit for spinning your own work.
To be honest you're probably never going to get into any trouble for spinning unless you blatantly only mix a few words up and call it your own. Worst comes to worst you get a take-down notice, follow it, and that's that. As someone else said if you're really paranoid keep your article spamming software on an offshore box.
This is a very interesting topic, as I see the need for "article spinning" in the freelancing field at times. I really don't understand much about it, and thus have never done it knowingly.
article spinning into 3 or 5 articles are still good for SE. But if too much can be detected as spam. because Google has its own algorithm to detect any synonymous word
