WordPress Plugin to Automatically add Copyright Message to your RSS / ATOM Feeds - Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin
June 28th, 2005 by Angsuman ChakrabortyContents
Overview
This plugin adds a copyright message to your feed items. No customization is required. This acts as a deterrant to feed-stealers (you heard the word first here) who unscrupulously and blatantly displays your full feed contents (often with their own advertisements) in their site(s) without your permission.
It doesn’t affect when only excerpts are shown nor it adds anything to the feeds when you decide to publish only article summary in your feeds.
Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin for WordPress 1.5 and above is of the class of upload-activate-and-forget Plugins (like WordPress 1.5 Plugin to disable nofollow from comments or WordPress Referrer Bouncer Plugin to bounce referrer spammer bots), Plugins that simply work.
Note: Please refer to WordPress Plugins (Free) Developed and Supported by Taragana.Com for a comprehensive list of all the plugins we have developed and provide for free. Any new plugin development requests (or enhancement requests) should also be indicated there as comments.
Update: This plugin has also been tested on WordPress 2.3.x.
One of the best ways to prevent plagiarism of your work is to clearly mark it as yours. Covered previously on this site, the Feed Copyrighter Plugin is a simple plugin does exactly that.
It is a simple plugin that adds a short copyright notice to the footer of each feed entry. By default, this notice warns users that, if they are reading the content on any site other than the original, the person is guilty of copyright infringement. However, the plugin can be trivially modified, even by a non-coder like myself, to say just about anything else, including express a Creative Commons License.
This plugin is also completely combatable with Feedburner and most other feed plugins. All in all it is a simple install and simple set up that can work wonders for your feed.
- PlagiarismToday
Background
Recently there has been lots of web based aggregator sites. Some of them like diabetologica blatantly displays the full content from the feed. So now you work hard to create your content and unscrupulous aggregators like diabetologica reap the benefits by displaying them along with their own advertisements. If that doesn’t sound fair to you, then this plugin is for you. Others have also expressed concern over this issue.
In my article - How to Protect your RSS Feeds from Unscrupulous Aggregator’s I have essentially proposed the solution which I now incorporate as a WordPress plugin.
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June 28th, 2005 at 11:39 am
This is great, Angsuman! Thanks for all of your hard work!
June 28th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
[...] if the posts contained in those feeds were their own, has been added via Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter plugin [...]
June 28th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
I followed the instructions Angsuman but the plug-in doesn’t appear to work on my site
Tom
June 28th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Tom, did you fix it? It appears to be working perfectly on your feed.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
@Tom
As MacManx has said before your feeds seems to properly displaying the copyright message. You can check by opening your feed in any aggregators like newzcrawler. Let me know.
June 28th, 2005 at 8:59 pm
Thanks MacManx for the appreciation and for encouraging me to write the plugin.
June 29th, 2005 at 1:40 am
Not a problem, Angsuman. ^_^ I’m glad that you released it, this is something that the WP community has been continually asking for.
Unfortunately, I’m running into some troubles that may or may not be related to the plugin. Most of them are actually related to WP in general. I’ll blog on that in a bit. Would you mind contacting me via email if you can? Comments are such an informal way to communicate these days.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:23 am
It is working? Great.
I’m using NetNewsWire Lite 2.0b41 and the notice doesn’t appear in that for my blog but James, yours does! Hence I thought it wasn’t working on my site.
Apologies for that - must be a NetNewsWire Lite issue (?)
June 29th, 2005 at 2:49 am
@Tom
WordPress & NewsReaders have a combined issue. When posts are not changed, WordPress issues a “Not Changed” HTTP header(304?). So even if you ask your Feed Reader to refresh/update, it ignores you and continues to show the old feed.
So while I was testing I repeatedly deleted my feed from the feed reader and added it
That might be why you were having a problem in veiwing the copyright.
Let me know if that solves your problem.
June 29th, 2005 at 2:50 am
@MacManx
I agree. I sent you an email.
June 29th, 2005 at 3:32 am
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June 29th, 2005 at 5:29 am
Ah!
that did it Angsuman,
thanks,
Tom
June 29th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
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August 15th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
I have looked all over this page…
and cannot find the link to download the plug-in.
Can you direct me to the link???
Thanks
Rowby
August 15th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
@Rowby
It is a multi-page article. Please download the plugin from page 2 which also contains the installation instructions.
Let me know how it goes.
August 29th, 2005 at 11:35 am
[...] This post is dedicated to one very useful plugin viz. Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin. [...]
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:35 pm
This is fabulous. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve used it on my end to insert non copywrite related text but obviously kept your ‘plug’. Question is, do you think it would be hard to trigger a different spot of text depending on the category of the post? I’ll have a play myself but I’ll likely break it
September 2nd, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Does this plug-in work when your feed only sends out extracts? I would still prefer people to visit my site, so I only include about half of the posts in the feed, and the copyright does not show for me.
September 3rd, 2005 at 12:31 am
@John No. That is because of limitations of WordPress.
I will see if it is possible to circumvent it in latest version of WP.
@Reno No problem. Thanks for keeping the plug
> do you think it would be hard to trigger a different spot of text depending on the category of the post?
I can do it.
What exactly are you looking for and why if I may ask?
September 6th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Angsuman: Thanks for confirming the plug-in not working on extracts.
If possible, it would be great if you can add an option for us to turn it on or off for extracts. I don’t mind providing a good bit of text, say 50%, as an extract, but to provide this much, I would want a copyright displayed.
If not, it is still a great plug-in.
September 6th, 2005 at 11:55 am
@John
> Thanks for confirming the plug-in not working on extracts.
I had already indicated it upfront in the article itself.
This is due to a limitation of WordPress hooks. Not sure if WP team has rectified it in the latest release; will check.
September 8th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
Would it be difficult to not have the copyright message included in every feed item but just every ‘n’ items or perhaps only once per feed refresh?
September 8th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
@Reno
No.
September 10th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
[...] Due to an overwhelming response of one to zero, MacManX.com’s RSS and Atom feeds are now presented in full HTML glory with a little bit of added copyright protection spice from Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin. As these new full content feeds will allow my content to be “re-blogged” by certain content-stealing sites, I have taken a more robust approach to hotlink protection. All approved domains will be able to display images from my feed and follow links to my media files, but all other will simply display broken images and trigger 403 (Access Denied) errors when attempting to link to my media files. Regular news aggregators are not affected by this, but online news aggregators are. The current approved domains are MacManX.com (of course), bloglines.com, newsgator.com, and rojo.com. If you are reading this post in your news aggregator and cannot view the image below, please contact me via the comments section or email, and I will attempt to approve your aggregator. Thank you, and enjoy the full content feeds. [...]
September 13th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
[...] An example of this can be found on the feed for the blog “Tom Raftery’s I.T. Views”, which uses a Wordpress plugin created by Angsuman Chakraborty, and reads as follows: “This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact [email withheld] so we can take legal action immediately.” [...]
September 15th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
[...] If you’re using the Wordpress software package, adding a copyright footer to your RSS feed is simple. In fact, there’s a very good plugin to do the dirty work for you. [...]
September 16th, 2005 at 2:58 am
I am having issues too. Not showing up for comments nor posts. And yes I have it on full mode like it says u must do on the first page.
Running 1.5.3 of wordpress.
Any help would be great.
Thanks a ton,
Will
September 16th, 2005 at 7:04 am
@Will
Can you point me to your blog?
October 30th, 2005 at 12:50 am
[...] Feed Copyrighter, to add a copyright message to MacManX.com’s RSS and Atom feeds. [...]
November 3rd, 2005 at 4:41 am
Thank you so much for creating this.
According to US Copyright Law, the proper format for a copyright notice is NAME OF THE WORK © YEAR AUTHOR. The default arrangement of the terms does not seem to follow this arrangement, however I was able to modify the copyright portion of the plugin to reflect that format.
Thanks again for creating this! Very useful!
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:13 am
Hi and thanks for this plugin. I’ve translated it into french. Hope you won’t have me for copyright infringement (lol). If you’d like a copy to make available for others I’ll be more than happy to send one along.
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:31 am
@Andy
You are welcome. Do send me the code / link.
November 4th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Hello,
I have this question. Is there a way to create a ‘white-list’ of IP addresses or domain names authorized to display in their websites/blogs the articles that one writes? I ask because I wouldn’t like the copyright notice to appear on those sites/blogs that I’ve authorized to syndicate my content. Or better yet, to have a copyright notice stating something like this: “this site has the authorization of blog.example.com to display this article” or something like that so that your content would still be protected.
Well, I guess this was more a suggestion than a question… but, would something like this be possible?
Thanks!
Jon
November 5th, 2005 at 6:12 am
@Jon
The message is appended to the feed. It cannot be known where and how the feed will be displayed. So it is not possible to customize it directly.
There are still a couple of options to do what you need. I am looking into it.
November 7th, 2005 at 6:57 am
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November 27th, 2005 at 9:47 am
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December 27th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
[...] WordPress Plugin to Automatically add Copyright Message to your RSS / ATOM Feeds [...]
December 29th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
[...] Add Footers to Your Feed: Using either available plugins, template modifications or Feedburner options, consider adding a footer to your feed. This footer should contain all pertinent copyright information and make it clear that the site scraping the feed is not the original source. For tips on this, please see my original article on the subject. [...]
December 30th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
[...] Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter自动增加版权信息到你的RSS和ATOM中。 atom copyright 版权 feed rss [...]
March 25th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
[...] Here’s the page for downloads and updated information on this WordPress plugin. Copyright your blog’s RSS feed [...]
April 5th, 2006 at 3:17 am
I am new to WordPres, but having just spent 10 minutes searching for this plug in, I’m surprised I can’t see it. Where is it?
April 5th, 2006 at 5:10 am
This is a multi-page article. The link to the feed copyrighter plugin is in page 2.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Wow I agree
That totally makes sense to me. Maybe I have been up on-line to long though. I spent the last 15 hours gathering data on lung cancer and smoking. Anyways, great site and very valuable content. Found you via kanoodle search
May 17th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
[...] Wie seht Ihr das? Ach ja, nur damit keine Spekulationen aufkommen, mir ist das hier passiert - und ich weiß noch nicht, ob ich das gut finden soll oder nicht…. ob es aber Peugeot Deutschland schmecken wird, steht noch in den Sternen, vielleicht in denen von Mercedes-Benz oder Volkswagen oder Renault oder Porsche oder ebay oder Honda oder Kia oder so… mal sehen, welche Markennamen mir noch so einfallen werden? Nachtrag: Ralf hat sich der Sache inzwischen auch schon angenommen, denn auch er ist davon betroffen. Nachtrag 2: Mal sehen, ob es mit dem Copyright-Hinweis klappt. [...]
May 29th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
[...] If you’re using WordPress to run your business blog, this is a snap. Angsuman over at Simple Thoughts has developed a plugin that will automatically add a copyright tag to your feed for you. It inserts a copyright in your RSS feed like this: Copyright © 2006 Advanced Business Blogging. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@advancedbusinessblogging.com so we can take legal action immediately. [...]
June 9th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
I can`t seem to add a link back to my blog without getting errors.I guess I need to escape the double quotes but I really dont know how to,can you give me a hand?
Thanks!
June 16th, 2006 at 11:40 am
luogo interessante, soddisfare interessante, buon!
August 29th, 2006 at 5:19 am
[...] Add a copyright notice - either just in the feed, or in the actual posts as well. For instance, using Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin for WordPress, you get it added automatically to every post in your feed (though I had to make some changes to the plugin for it to work perfectly with FeedBurner). [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 3:06 am
[...] Acrescenta uma nota de copyright - seja apenas no feed, seja nos próprios posts também. Por exemplo, se usares o Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin for WordPress, passas a ter uma dessas notas (que inclui um link para o teu blog blog) adicionada automaticamente a cada post, no feed (se bem que tive de fazer algumas alterações ao plugin para este funcionar correctamente com o FeedBurner). [...]
August 31st, 2006 at 8:01 am
[...] I have just added Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter plugin to my blog. This is done to avoid feed stealer. If you did not know what is a feed stealer, see here as an example. This plugin need no customization. Download it from the download page, upload it into your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate it in the plugin option page. [...]
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:15 am
Guten Tag, biete ich die Zusammenarbeit an, wie sich mit Ihnen zu verbinden?
September 21st, 2006 at 8:31 am
[...] My advice, especially if you’re using Wordpress, is to use a plugin like Feed Copyright or Better Feed. At least them visitors at the other site will know it’s been ganked, and hopefully the site owners will be embarrassed enough to quit it. (They do this for the Google rankings.) [...]
September 23rd, 2006 at 6:04 pm
[...] Having said that, if you use Wordpress for your blogging platform, I’d like to point you to a sweet little plug-in that will insert YOUR copyright information at the bottom of each post in your RSS feed. The plug-in is located here. by TheaterOfTheSoul | posted in Miscellaneous, Site Updates Trackback URL | Comment RSS Feed Tag at del.icio.us | Incoming links [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
[...] I’ve found a Wordpress plugin that does this very thing. (Note: I haven’t actually used this plugin myself, but in theory it sounds like it should work). The publisher of the feed copyright plugin, also has a great article on protecting your RSS feeds. Check it out. [...]
September 30th, 2006 at 1:18 am
[...] You can do this manually without a WordPress Plugin. Just type in some unique phrase consistently into your post content that doesn’t interfere with your readers’ reading, then search various search engines and/or Copyscape once in awhile to see if your posts show up in other blogs. You could use the popular Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter WordPress Plugin to automatically add a copyright message of your own design to your feeds from your WordPress blog, or the Better Feed Wordpress Plugin by FrenchFragFactory allows you to add text and other elements to your feeds. [...]
October 3rd, 2006 at 12:59 pm
[...] This plugin by Angsuman Chakraborty, adds a copyright tag to your RSS and Atom feeds, just set it up, and forget about it. If you aren’t a Wordpress user, the bottom line is that you want to include a direct copyright notification in your blog’s tag. Additionally, if you don’t want anyone to publish the full contents of your article without your permission, publish only the summary feed, instead of the full-text feed. [...]
October 8th, 2006 at 9:20 am
[...] WordPress Plugin to Automatically Add Copyright Message to RSS Atmo Feeds [...]
October 9th, 2006 at 10:12 am
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October 23rd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
How to fight blog spam
Blog spam is a major problem.
There’s comment spam, trackback spam, and “splogs” - blogs created from scraping other blogs.
And all are usually automated processes carried out by scripts.
Howeve…
November 1st, 2006 at 6:54 pm
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November 7th, 2006 at 9:18 am
[...] Feeds schützen.Der einfachste Weg Content im großen Stil zu klauen ist mit Sicherheit Feeds zu missbrauchen. Ein Weg das etwas schwerer zu machen ist es in den Feed eine entsprechende Urheberrechtsinfo mit einzubauen. Für Wordpress gibt es das auch schon fertig als Plugin von Taragana. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
[...] Here’s the page for downloads and updated information on this WordPress plugin. Copyright your blog’s RSS feed [...]
November 12th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Leggo ed imparo sul vostro luogo. grazie!
November 14th, 2006 at 3:54 am
[...] Desde la aparición del splog ha ido apareciendo servicios para tratar de frenar el crecimiento de la splogosfera y el spam en general. Uno de los primeros es Splog Reporter, un servicio para reporta splogs. Otra forma es usar una utilidad como Feed Copyrighter plugin, es un plugin para wordpress que nos permite añadir un mesaje de copyright al feed de nuestro blog. [...]
November 16th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
[...] Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin [...]
December 8th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Has anyone seen the new Gatoradee ad which is out?
December 25th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
[...] another good one as I’m getting scraped! [...]
January 14th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
that is so good
March 12th, 2007 at 5:00 am
thank you very much for this script
March 17th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Hey, very good script. Its very usefull for me. Great. Jürgen
April 6th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Is there a way to have the copyrighted message be at the start of the feed instead of at the end?
April 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
like the others i think too, that you have done a really good job with this script. thanks a lot.
April 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I use summary, since that really seems to be the best way to prevent aggregators from grabbing my feed. When I have a post that is short enough to display the copyright message, that post seems to ping bloglines repeatedly, even with Smart Update Pinger running. Any idea why that would be?!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Hello
I can’t download the plugin. The page # 2 doesn’t load! Could you please provide me the link
TIA
Ciro
June 16th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Does this plugin work if you use FeedBurner/Feedsmith?
June 16th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Yes, it should work.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:02 am
hello angsumen chakroborty,seems you are an indian.bro,i have just created a blog with blogspot and i really worry of my articles would be copied(heard of many such thefts)so please guide with me with do’s and don’t and ways to protect my posts including copyright details,rss stuff n i see so many adds on each blogs like technocraty,blogoroma and i am so dumb to understand all this please help me out in a more clear n easy way.need a bit of your time but your help would be very much appreciated.all in all I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ALL THIS!
August 18th, 2007 at 7:05 am
I despise splogging. And it’s amazing how quickly a blog (after its release) is scoured and material is stolen. Although not a complete deterrent, this tool has been useful in tracking down online thieves.
Thanks for your work.
Dan
August 29th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
thanks for the plugin, will try it in my blog.
September 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Hi Angsuman
Thanks for this useful plugin!
I’ve just been customising it a bit, and I was wondering about the behaviour of the “date” section.
If I’m understanding the PHP correctly, the Copyright date shown will be the current year - the year in which the feed was generated. But I’m thinking that a more desirable behaviour would be for the copyright year to be that in which the article was written. They might not always be the same (esp just after the year date changes).
I wonder if there is a way for the plugin to call the date of the article instead?
might look into that myself, but anyway, thought I would mention it here too.
cheers
Jennifer
September 28th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Following on from yesterday’s post, I found out you can use something like:
$post_time=get_the_time(’Y');
get_the_time() is similar to the_time() but returns the result rather than displaying it. In the context of add_filter(’the_content’ (… etc), it knows we’re talking about the current post.
… just in case you wanted to do a tweak
September 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Jennifer,
Showing copyright for the current year is the
standard practice. The fact is that you own perpetual copyright to the article. So legally it makes more sense to show it for the current year.
IANAL, but my niece is
October 8th, 2007 at 3:54 am
이 원본을 대단히 감사합니다
October 11th, 2007 at 1:12 am
I tested your plugin and is really nice. This Help me a lot with my blog! Thank You!
October 24th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Awesome plugin! I wanna use this now. Tired of my stuff being snatched up by other blogs.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:40 am
This plugin is very useful and i like because is not overloading too much my server! that’s great! thank yoU!
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 am
Hello,
thanks for such a nice plugins, i will definitely try it in my blog.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Thank you. Just the plugin we are looking for.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I definitely wanna try this out.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
thanks for this great tool!!!
December 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
thanks for the plugin, will try it in my blog.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:56 am
yes! i wanna try this tool! thanks man!
January 30th, 2008 at 10:43 am
thanks for the plugin, will try it in my blog.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:41 am
i have a website but i dont know how to instal a blog…can you help me??
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I am having issues too. Not showing up for comments nor posts. And yes I have it on full mode like it says u must do on the first page.
Running 1.5.3 of wordpress.
Any help would be great.
Thanks a ton,
Star
February 12th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Thank you for nice plugin
March 12th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Many thanks Angsuman! I’ve just discovered the problem (by reading not by experience - my blog’s still too new ;-)) and immediately found your solution. Wordpress bloggers have is too easy.. for every problem there is a plugin!
Now I just have to figure out how to test it!
Thanks again,
Gerry
March 20th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Great work, though.. Thanks much!
March 21st, 2008 at 8:30 am
i will definitely try it in my blog, thanks you for such a nice plugins.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
two humble wishes for your next release. Is it possible to specify to have or not have a border around pictures and a “v space” and “h space” option on pictures that’s inserted?
March 21st, 2008 at 10:05 am
Is it possible to specify to have or not have a border around pictures and a “v space” and “h space” option on pictures that’s inserted?
March 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
nice plugin, thanks
April 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
thanks you for a lot. good plugins thanks
April 4th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
nice plugin, thank you
April 10th, 2008 at 4:19 am
nice plugin, thank you
April 14th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Thank you for nice plugin