Anything that you have and causes envy to others is liable to be stolen. If it is your car or home, you buy insurance policy for it. But how do you protect if it is something that you have created through mind, I mean literary work? It is really infuriating to see your ideas
pasted on another website without asking for your permission. This is known as theft of ideas, and is as serious as someone stealing your car. How hard you have worked to create an idea, and it gets copied and pasted on another website in a minute.
If your work has been copied or reproduced in a manner where a link to your site has been given, you probably have no reason to worry as more backlinks mean a rise in your site’s ranking, but if it has just been copied and paste with impunity without any mention of your name or site, you can make use of copyright laws to protect yourself and your reputation which is at stake.
If you are concerned about the safety of your content, you can check whether it has been copied or not by making use of Copyscape. If there is nothing that has been copied, you can 
breathe a sigh of relief, but if you find that the content has been copied, you need to take steps to get it removed. You can send a message to the site owner saying that it is your work, telling him about your original work and its location. Sometimes this is enough and you receive an apology email saying that it happened unknowingly.
However, if the copied content is not removed, as a last resort, you can use your rights under DMCA and contact major search engines like Google and Yahoo to get it removed.
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