Someone stole your content. Here's what recovery looks like

First: don't tip off the thief

The instinct when you find your work on someone else's site is to fire off an angry email. Resist it. A warned infringer can strip identifying details, backdate posts, move hosting, or file a fraudulent copyright claim against you before you've preserved anything. Professional recovery starts quietly: documenting every copy, establishing you as the original and mapping how far the theft has spread. Stolen content is rarely in just one place; scrapers syndicate, a single stolen article often propagates to content farms within days, each copy linking the others into a web that search engines struggle to untangle.

Only once the record is secure do we act, and you never have to deal with the thief yourself.

Getting stolen work taken down

Copyright protects the creator of an original work the moment the work exists, and our specialists handle the rest. We remove stolen copies wherever they live, from websites to YouTube, Etsy, Amazon and social networks, and pull them out of Google, which matters enormously when a scraped version is outranking your original and siphoning your traffic. Getting your original recognised again is part of the job.

For sites built entirely on stolen content, single-page takedowns are not enough, and we treat the whole site as the target. When theft is commercial and ongoing, we keep records your attorney can use. We're not a law firm, but our case files are built so legal action is a step, not a restart.

Two honest caveats. First, not every copy is worth chasing: a dead blog with no readers and no rankings may deserve nothing but a line in the evidence file, while a single scraper outranking your original deserves our full attention, and part of our job is telling you plainly which is which. Second, speed changes everything: copies breed copies, and the same theft addressed in week one is a fraction of the work, and the damage, it becomes by month six.

And then make sure it doesn't restart

One thief usually means your content is exposed to all of them, scrapers work in networks. After the cleanup, our monitoring watches for your text, images and video fingerprints resurfacing anywhere new, and files fast while a fresh copy is still one URL instead of fifty. That's the recurring layer our Protection Plans provide for writers, photographers, brands and store owners.

It also changes how theft feels. Clients consistently describe the discovery moment as violating: your work, with your name stripped off it, earning someone else money. Handing the problem to a team that documents, files and reports back turns an open-ended grievance into a managed process with statuses and end dates, which is worth almost as much as the removals themselves.

If you've just found your work somewhere it shouldn't be, book a free Exposure Scan. We'll find every copy, tell you honestly which ones matter, and tell you how quickly they can come down.