One way you can also find if your writing is being used is to copy and paste some of your writing into a search engine and then everywhere your words show up, you can find where your writing is being used.

I took some classes in Wicca and have some Wiccan friends.

Blessings and light to you...

You can view previous discussions about this topic in the forum and what has been done since and why as well as when and how.

Unfortunately it is a difficult issue and has no easy quick fix nor does it go away since it is ongoing just has NP is being joined by new members every day some do need to learn and understand the reasons behind copy rights. Many are not aware off the issue or do not take it seriously, why we have guide lines that need to be broth to their attention. Simple actually and easy enough to do through PM preferably. This is a people powered news site and there for the people are also in part responsible for it. 

http://my.nowpublic.com/search?fulltext=1&type=newsroom&keys=Copy+Rights

You can find more on the topic with the above link.

NP is working hard to make this a good site and yet all things do take time and may seem at times to be neglected, however they are being doubt with.

Thank you for posting in the Forum.

I do believe if every new member was directed to read the information on Plagiarism.org, it would teach them how not to violate copyright and plagiarize.

It could be that simple.

I have tried to tell some bloggers gently they were violating copyright, yet they argue with me and refuse to learn. They interpret copyright law wrong.

The Plagiarism.org site is very good and explains it better.

Any truth?

Word on Vancouver streets is that NowPublic is about to be acquired by Canwest. While a NowPublic acquisition may not seem like a significant transaction, keep in mind that Canwest's current market capitalization is a paltry $80 Million - down from $700 Million only one year ago. NowPublic raised $10 Million in venture capital in July of 2007.

This rumour may have legs. NowPublic Co-founder Len Brody has advised Canwest in the past.

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canwest-to-buy-vancouvers-nowpublic

Why would anyone want NowPublic, let alone CanWest.
Don't they have enough useless baggage as it is?
You're telling me that someone got conned into putting up money for this project?
$10 million worth?
Shocking that anyone could be so stupid even in Vancouver.
NowPublic is, was, and will forever be a dead-end idea.

Frankly, that last post looks like a plant, trying to start a rumour that has no basis in fact, because the companies days are beyond being numbered.

I think this is going off topic.

Let's all delete our posts which do not focus on plagiarism and copyright.

Coincidence?

The post before mine was up for 24 hrs but you didn't come along to ask that it be deleted until I started questioning it.

Staying on topic is one justification for preventing inconvenient truths.

Control freak! Its not "off topic" because if NowPublic is sold then plagiarism and copyright may no-longer be the issue it has been here for the past couple of years. PEP has posted about plagiarism and copyright for at least a couple of years. There are a few original writers on NP, Paschen is one of them who has also made many a long post or comment on plagiarism and copyright. While even staff editors don't write original posts others won't be encouraged to follow suit. Why spend a few hours writing an original piece when the staffers plagiarise away like there's no tomorrow. Today, NP have changed the terms and conditions so something is under foot.

Well, 'inconvenient truths' are one thing. Flustered, arm-waving, red-in-the-face opinions are something else entirely.

That's a lot of physical attribution given to mere words.

Most everything in the world happens to be opinion.

Yeah, there was a little physicality given to describing your words. I found them pretty strong, so used some fittingly demonstrative terms.

'useless baggage'

'conned'

'NowPublic is, was, and will forever be a dead-end idea.'

I cannot but wonder, if the very concept of NowPublic upsets you so, why would you waste your time being here?
I'm very new to this site. It seems like a great concept. However, I do realise some Canadians see CanWest as Satan personified and tend to get a little steamed about it.

I see CanWest as a socially responsible enterprise trying to get by in the world, and nothing more.
And I'm a supporter of media, the more the better.
To tell a member of the audience to leave is bad business, unless they're being abusive or overly disruptive.

I came across a post and questioned it. I notice the number 6 beside the post, so it seems to be of interest to people.

'And I'm a supporter of media, the more the better.'

Unless it's NowPublic, it seems.
I'm just trying to find out what you dislike so much about this particular media site.

Copyright is still copyright and plagiarism is still plagiarism, no matter who is the major stockholder and pulls the strings.

You can choose the Creative Commons license for your writing, I presume...and now writers may actually get paid for the work here...I don't know what the problem is.

And I am not a control freak.

Staying on topic on a forum thread I started is not asking too much, I hope.

CanWest/NowPublic all I know is that I am going to write...and if I get paid for it, then THANK GOD. or ALLAH, or SHIVA, or whomever...or Buddha....whomever...(did I leave anyone out?)