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Copyright theft

Having been the victim of copyright theft on a number of occasions it is well worth listing a number of useful resources:

Free services:
Copyscape - The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.

Banners - Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner to warn potential plagiarists against stealing your content.

Professional services:
Copyscape Premium provides more powerful searching than the free service with no monthly limit. You may also search for copies of your offline content by copying and pasting the text.

Copysentry provides ongoing protection for your entire website, monitoring the web automatically and alerting you to new copies of your content.

Lorelle VanFossen has tons of useful information:
What to do when someone steals your content
Finding stolen content and copyright infringement

Other resources:
Website content theft
10 Big myths about copyright explained
Google alerts
Yahoo DMCA Policy & instructions
Google's DCMA Statement & Policy
Internet copyright confusion
Copyscape resource centre
Internet Publishing and Digital Rights: The Changing Balance between Access and Ownership