FairShare Is Now Public and Available For Even Small Bloggers To Track Stolen Content

Some of the loyal Profy readers may remember FairShare, a service by Attributor that we discussed when it was launched in private beta with a few bloggers participating. For those of you who is not aware, FairShare is a service developed and launched by Attributor with support of Creative Commons in order to enable everyone to track abuse of content and prevent it in the future.

FairShare analyzes the RSS feed for any blog and provides stats to the content owner about which sites republish his or her content, weather they provide a link back and weather they also monetize the stolen content with ads. The private beta was launched back in December and today every blogger is invited to join and see the hidden life of his or her content elsewhere. The service is totally free for bloggers to use and also supports blogs written in 12 languages.

All you have to do is submit your RSS feed to the service and choose one of the six supported Creative Commons licenses for the service to determine the proper (and improper) uses for your content. The results will be delivered to you as an RSS feed as well where you will get the insights into reuse of your content. In addition to that, you will also get weekly summary charts to see how you content is shared in an easy to grasp graphical view.

As of writing this, the homepage of FairShare has the following stats: almost 100 thousand registered blogs and articles with as many as 8.5 shared copies found per one registered blog (of course the more popular the blog, the more shares it will get around the web). Now that the service is open to the general public we should probably expect to see the number of blogs rapidly growing and more and more bloggers realizing exactly how fair use of our content actually is.