I'm making this post to let people know there are frauds out there, that put up blogs, pinterest and facebook pages, only to steal other blogger's recipes, remove the copyright, and post them as their own, stealing all the hard work, time, and love that goes into creating recipes. One such page on pinterest is https://www.pinterest.com/99LowCarb/low-carb-recipes/ and their facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/99LowCarb/
I've found several of my own recipes on their page, as well as other food bloggers that I know. Please, please, when you find pages like this, do not support them, confront them that you know what they are doing, spread the word to others to let them know, and report them if you see a violation. It is sad that this happens and very discouraging, and really makes me wonder if the work is worth it only for others to steal it and make money off my labor. I don't make any money off what I share. I do it as a labor of love! I get a small amount of money from ads on my blog, really not enough to keep up the blog. But others steal my recipes as well as others who have worked hard, and make them their own and use them for profit. Please don't support these types of pages if you know what they are doing.
I report them when I find them, and will post them on my blog to expose them when I become aware of them, and hopefully enough people will spread the news that they will no longer be able to continue to do what they do. It is nearly impossible to keep up with all the crooks out there who don't want to make an honest living. It's nearly impossible to protect your own work. People can steal recipes, put together their own recipe books, and who is any the wiser? I will keep posting recipes because I want to help people. I guess what others do they will do. But I will do what I can to make others aware of it also and hope all you good people out there will hold them accountable when you are able and make sure to spread the word.
Thanks for speaking up Ginny. I have found over 165 of my recipes stolen on this site. So very frustrating. The web links are still up too.
ReplyDeleteOh how frustrating! I wish Facebook would take down these scraper sites! That many violations you would think would be enough to give them reason to do so. 😡
DeleteI am so sorry this is happening to you. Continue to expose these frauds as you find them. Know that your work is helping people like me who, for medical reasons, need to stay very low carb.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your post! It does my heart good to know some are being helped by my recipes!
DeleteThere are many of us that you and Lisa have helped immensely!!! I only go to the sites that I have asked for their newsletter. One reason is that I trust your hard work to make the recipes correctly. The other is that others don't put in the work and the recipes don't work and I end up throwing the food away. I learned the hard way to stick with the people I trust.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteThank you for the great post. Far too many people believe they can just copy and thing and post it as their own. This is happening more and more and I see more copies posted to social media sites. *be it pinterest, facebook, youtube, instagram, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing for us bloggers/creaters/authors is to keep in mind that not all plug-ins/sharing sites look out for us. Read the fine print for some recipe plug-ins will share you recipe on their site, maybe even promote and monetize it for themselves giving you nothing since you agreed to the fine print.
Thanks again for spreading the word.