A major news paper in Singapore has filed copyright claims against popular internet site Yahoo. The newspaper Singapore Press Holdings claims that Yahoo has reproduced many parts of articles from various newspapers owned by the southeast Asia press company. When running one of the mentioned websites stomp.com.sg through Copy Scape (copyscape.com) we did not find any duplicate content on the internet at first. Later clicking on an option on Copy Scape to search through the sites Ask Libby section many results from all over the web returned many results but still no content from a Yahoo website. Copyright violations are becoming a more and more serious threat in many major governments around the world as they ramp up censorship through legislation and policies like Sopa and The Ip Protect Act.
Singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg did offer an RSS feed for aggregation on there site by the way but the articles in the RSS feed are not the entire stories. Aggregation is one of the common ways news websites like Yahoo and Google News get there news articles and contents from internet blogs. But scraping and reproducing the entire story on Yahoo's website while not having the license to reproduce the entire stories is usually a clear cut case as long as evidence of content reproduction is given in court. If this happens to you and your website ends up getting ripped make sure to take several screen shots of the content on your website and the copyright infringers website. Screen shots are key and essential in a court case like this as a web service like Yahoo may try and take the evidence down to cover there tracks.
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