As you know, we publish TechnoLawyer Blog. Monster, the online career site, publishes Monster Blog.
What do we have in common?
A blog at pureserendipity dot com is republishing our posts without permission.
The problem is not so much the blog, but the fact that it's being indexed by Technorati, the second largest blog search engine. Thankfully, Google does not yet index this blog, but if that ever happens, it could siphon off our traffic.
I suspect the blog is hosted in Russia, which apparently has modern copyright laws. I tried emailing the domain owner a friendly note, but didn't hear back.
I've contacted Monster's legal department, but I don't yet know if it will work with us.
What would you do if this was happening to your blog?
a. Ride Monster's coattails (assuming it takes action).
b. Try to hire a copyright lawyer in Russia.
c. Contact Technorati and ask to have the blog removed from its index. And perhaps contact Google as well as a prophylactic measure.
d. Do nothing unless it gets indexed by Google.
e. Something else?
PS: On Wednesday, this very post will appear in that blog.
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