There are a couple of these sites that rip off good content. The worst are the ones that translate from one language to another because the original authors are almost never going to be aware of it.
Is there a way to call out this kind of shitty behavior, pissing in the commons pool? Maybe flagging the article and replacing the link with the original?
My name is Kate and I am Head of Content at Let's Enhance.
We are very thankful for the given material, because it's highly related to us.
And I want to clarify this unpleasant situation:
I've directly talked with the author of the article - Vas3k and asked for the permission to publish this awesome material. I can attach the screenshots of our conversation.
All the copyrights are reserved. We mentioned you and your blog as the original source.
What's more, we've saved all the links in the article that refer to your blog.
Yes, I get this all the time too. Vaguely worded emails for permission to rip my stuff and any answer will be used as permission granted. You're in violation of copyright, and the author is right here to dispute your claim. As you are no doubt aware as students of copyright law you've now been told that your permission to copy has been rescinded which leaves you with only one option.
One problem is that you need to read through the entire article before you realize that the article is a copy of another article.
It is more appropriate to a preamble stating that the following images and text are directly copied from the original author.
Saying we are thankful for "given materials" is too vague (and probably offensive to the original author) when all the images, text, and even structure of the article is a copy.
Let’s be respectful to the original author, I spent couple of months writing it:(