Your post is a perfect example of “building upon someone’s work”, it’s great, that is the way to go. Linking back, quoting, all good practices. I highly encourage everyone to have a copyright page.

One thing regarding adsense, you can file a DMCA complaint, but the problem is you can wait weeks/months before you get a reply from Google, contacting “smaller” advertisers is a good alternative (worked really well for me).

One thing that is often misunderstood is “fair use” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use ) just gotta make sure you understand that before taking any actions, like filing a DMCA or contacting advertisers or hosting company.

@Mike Goad: thanks for the information it seems your far more knowledgeable abou this top than I am. I also read your post that you made about copyright infringement that you just recently published.

@dcr: thanks I have been looking into this I will contact google asap.

@erik: yeh i don’t think theres much anyone can do to prevent it, i still think a copyright page might stop some thieves but who knows it’s worth a shot.

@steven: thanks i will contact them

You mentioned that the person is only using Google adsense, you can still report him to Google and perhaps get him banned.

Hope everything works out ok.

A copyright page is NOT necessary. A copyright statement is not required.

Copyright exists in a work from the moment that it is fixed in some tangible medium.

What that means is that as I am writing this comment, it is not copyrighted because if my computer were to lose power, these words would be gone. However, when I hit the “add comment” button below, the words will be saved on a server somewhere. Copyright for this “original expression” of words begins at that moment.

That being said, there is probably some value in having a copyright statement somewhere on the blog - maybe even on every post. That way if someone scrapes the conrtent, the copyright statement will go with it.

Interesting….