How to Use FairShare to Track Your Online Content
If you post content on the Internet and you suspect that other people may be using your copyright protected work without proper attribution or permission, this article will explain how to use FairShare, one of the free web apps that will help you track your content.
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Instructions
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FairShare is one of several web apps that will follow your copyright protected content. Start by setting up the content your want FairShare to watch.
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FairShare can watch your blog, your photos or any text that you publish. If you want them to track images, you have to enter your name and email in a separate screen. Click the "Learn about FairShare for images" link to do this.
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You provide a URL of a blog feed or whatever the content is you want to track. If you are tracking a static page with no RSS feed it takes a bit of extra work on your part to create a feed for it. The FairShare Help files explain how to do this.
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FairShare then asks you to select the Creative Commons License that you want to apply to your work. If you don't want to apply a Creative Commons License to your work you can choose a no license option. However, the point of using FairShare is to track material that you own the rights to, so it makes sense to select one of the options here.
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Finally, you create an account. You provide your email address, create a password and complete a CAPTCHA form to get started. Your email address is what FairShare uses to notify you when your text or images are found published by someone else. You must agree to the nearly unreadably formatted terms of service as well.
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You will receive reports by email showing the results of FairShare's search for your content on the Internet.
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Tips & Warnings
There is a paid subscription service with additional features.
Once you have an account set up, you can add more sites for FairShare to monitor.
