Copyscape : A Website that Search for copies of your page on the web.

Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense. Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.

Some of the plagiarism consideration can be of:

1. turning in someone else's work as your own
2. copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
3. failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
4. giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
5. changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
6. copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

Content scraping is copying and pasting from websites and blogs. Free online tools are becoming available to help identify plagiarism, and there are a range of approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling right clicking and placing warning banners regarding copyrights on web pages. Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site.

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. 

Try this Website to check for your copies of pages on the web. Copyscape provides a free plagiarism checker for finding copies of your web pages online. Copyscape uses Google and Yahoo! as search providers, under agreed terms. It provides comprehensive protection for your website by automatically scanning the web daily or weekly and emailing you when new copies of your content are found. It helps in copy-paste originality checks, batch search, private index, case tracking and an API.

Source: http://www.copyscape.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/

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