Comments on: Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the Web

By: newslife site » How AP’s News Registry Will (and Won’t) Work

newslife site » How AP’s News Registry Will (and Won’t) Work — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:54:04 +0000

[...] that with other tools. Since May 2007 the AP has been working with Attributor, a company that finds whole or partial copies of publishers’ content and enables them to seek a cut of ad revenue or links. The AP is already fully capable of sending [...]

By: Behind The A.P.’s Plan To Become The Web’s News Cop

Behind The A.P.’s Plan To Become The Web’s News Cop — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:27:47 +0000

[...] and photos through a partnership with Attributor, a startup that has indexed the Web and can find any content for which it has a digital fingerprint. After identifying the worst offenders through Attributor, the A.P. could simply present that list [...]

By: Associated Press Plans To Police the Web | Blog YODspica Ltd

Associated Press Plans To Police the Web | Blog YODspica Ltd — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:52:41 +0000

By: FairShare Helps Bloggers Track Their Content Across The Web; Grab An Invite Here | All about MICROSOFT

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:20:24 +0000

[...] many ways FairShare is a toned-down version of Attributor (an enterprise-grade web service that helps large media companies search the web for copyright infringement). The two services share [...]

By: FairShare Helps Bloggers Track Their Content Across The Web; Grab An Invite Here

FairShare Helps Bloggers Track Their Content Across The Web; Grab An Invite Here — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:22 +0000

By: Scholastic PageRank « Science

Scholastic PageRank « Science — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:06:22 +0000

[...] currency ((Currency means the standard unit of exchange.)) of the web is links. ((A Google search reveals a lot of web currency! Apparently this concept was first voiced in [...]

By: Scholastic PageRank « Freedom of Science

Scholastic PageRank « Freedom of Science — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:58:10 +0000

[...] The currency ((Currency means the standard unit of exchange.)) of the web is links. ((A Google search reveals a lot of web currency! Apparently this concept was first voiced in [...]

By: Health and saftey - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

Health and saftey - Cruisers & Sailing Forums — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:01:17 +0000

[...] and improve your content syndication Attributor Tracks Web Content – 11/12/2007 – Publishers Weekly Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the Web Big Brother isn’t just the government. Businesses and content providers are taking copyright [...]

By: Copyright or Wrong » Blog Archive » Pay me, link to me, or take it down.: Copyright Law and Policy - Jefferson Coulter, Seattle Attorney

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:23:55 +0000

[...] information is unavailable on Attribtor’s site, but according to TechCrunch, the enterprise service costs anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but [...]

By: Frustration and Fighting Plagiarism - PlagiarismToday

Frustration and Fighting Plagiarism - PlagiarismToday — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:05:17 +0000

[...] doing beta testing and having signed up both the AP and Reuters, among others. They’ve also announced plans for a “self serve” version of the service aimed at [...]

By: www.nn-sky.com.cn » Blog Archive » Furstration and Fighting Plagiarism

www.nn-sky.com.cn » Blog Archive » Furstration and Fighting Plagiarism — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:55:00 +0000

[...] doing beta testing and having signed up both the AP and Reuters, among others. They%26#8217;ve also announced plans for a %26#8220;self serve%26#8221; version of the service aimed at [...]

By: GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform

GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:43:03 +0000

[...] a Silicon Valley startup, helps content owners track their intellectual property to find examples of infringement. But until now, no one has really thought about a better way to [...]

By: LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® » Blog Archive » No more free ride

LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® » Blog Archive » No more free ride — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:53:33 +0000

[...] Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using how much of their stuff without paying or attributing. [...]

By: surferd00d

surferd00d — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:00:19 +0000

There’s already a company that tells you if your images are being used elsewhere on the Internet… it’s http://www.copystalker.com

By: edwin

edwin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:49:42 +0000

Oh come on.

You know we would only read from TechCrunch. Let them be. If you’re bummed about their website, just sue them. Probably is not worth the hassle.

By: Pioneer1

Pioneer1 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:59:05 +0000

Links are the currency of the Web. Great article that inspired this post. Since the currency of the web is links and links are proportional to authority then I propose G = 1 Google as the universal constant for the web. Does this make sense to you?

By: xztheericzx

xztheericzx — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:58:30 +0000

i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

By: [from webleon] Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the Web | 美味小众

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:21:43 +0000

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By: Another Andrew

Another Andrew — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:14:08 +0000

Hey, where’s the pingback to this morning’s insightful post, in which I argued that the “humble blogger” version of Attributor should be free?

By: Rollo

Rollo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:52:23 +0000

Very clever, #16: A verbatim copy of Arrington on October 4:

http://www.tech...c-towards-free/

And I didn’t even need Attributor.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:22:01 +0000

This doesn’t help the ‘little’ blogger, who’s articles are being swiped the instant they’re posted online. I’ve tried contacting Google when a site including my material uses Adsense. The response I get is that I have to do a DMCA complaint to get them to take action.

So merely knowing isn’t enough; there has to be a way to do something about it.

By: timar

timar — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:45:39 +0000

TC – imitation sincerest form of flattery ..or is it?

By: Devrim Demirel

Devrim Demirel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:32:31 +0000

Great startup, with an important product.

This article is a nice way to see how Google monetizes and sponsors copy/paste content.

By: BeerCo Software Blog

BeerCo Software Blog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:27:14 +0000

100 million index per day???? WTF, I’m jealous…

TechCrunch reports that some copyright infringement software similar to Sergey Brin’s COPS system sweeps 100M indexes per day.
“Attributor is already indexing 100 million Web pages a day (15 billion total so far), but it is not a keyword in…

By: TS

TS — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:38:59 +0000

There have been previous startups doing this type of stuff, and almost all of them disappeared again. What makes this different from those previous ones? It seems the technology for detecting duplicated text is well understood, or do they have something that is really different? Or have the economics changed significantly since the last time, due to adsense and blogging, opening up a new opportunity?

Anyway, I am very underwhelmed by this, at least the way it is presented here. Seems like this could be built within a few months by 2-3 good people. Maybe there is an interesting backstory, but techcrunch’s breathless “look, someone has a tool that can do x” coverage doesn’t help me.