When you pay someone else for web content, are you getting what you paid for? Or are you inviting a lawsuit for copyright infringement? A friend of mine suggested I take a look at this great article a friend of his had posted on his blog. The article was excellent, in fact, it was too good and it was stolen from the website of a huge news agency.

The writing itself gave away the theft long before I found the original source. As a writer, I might be more likely to spot this sort of thing but the things that gave this article away should be fairly easy to spot by non-writers as well. I thought it would be helpful to others if I shared some of the things I look for when reviewing content to determine if it is indeed stolen. Hopefully, I can prevent someone else from posting stolen content on their site and help them to spot these crooks before they too get taken.