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Copyscape is an online “Plagiarism Search” or “Content Copyright Protection” tool, which enables webmasters who want to find plagiarism related to their content, to search for copies of their own pages on the Internet.
As it says on the “about” page: http://www.copyscape.com/about.php, Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you. Another important page is a “campaign” page: http://www.copyscape.com/campaign.php that also describes Copyscape’s features in details. There is also a powerful “Premium service” available that provides professional grade coverage, plus an unlimited number of searches, while it also includes integrated case-tracking to manage responses to multiple instances of plagiarism.
How does it work? You just need to type in the address of your original web page, and Copyscape does the rest; see this “example” page here: http://www.copyscape.com/?example=1 for one such example (it searches for copies of the http://www.copyscape.com/example.html page), while on the “banner” page: http://www.copyscape.com/banners.php?o=r, you can choose a “plagiarism warning banner” for your own site, with which you can defend your site to warn potential plagiarists against stealing your content.
