Plagiarism, one of the most sensitive word which is generally used to accuse somebody for stealing people’s creative work or content from book, web, etc. It is generally considered as act of fraud without attributing to the author of an article,book or web content. Want to know about Plagiarism, check this site. But Plagiarism is completely different from copyright infringement says wikipedia. Coming to the web part, most of the plagiarism that happens in the real world is from online. In day to day life you can find lot of sites that copies contents into the sites to make up their SERP rankings. There are also lot of tools available to do this job. To overcome this problems, nowadays search engines are employing new algorithms to identify the same but it can be done only upto certain extent. Now Copyscape developed and maintained by Indigo Stream Technologies Ltd has developed an online web application to find the copies of your materials online. Good doesnt it?

Copyscape comes with two types of accounts, the free one and the premium one. The free service is limited to 10 searches per month and also top 10 results to view. Copyscape helps users in keeping a plagiarism warning banners, including copyright notices in all the pages, etc. Copyscape also helps users in fighting against infringement from using whois services to filing a case with Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get the content removed.

Copyscape premium comes with the following features,

1. Unlimited search results.

2. Copy and paste offline content.

3. More comprehensive searches.

4. Thousands of searches per month.

5. Case tracking and followup.

I think for webmasters it is worth giving it a try.