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Welcome to my second installment of the WordPress Plug-In of the Week!

This week I’m going to review iCopyright, a plug-in for content publishers so that content can be tracked and monitized when republished.

I pulled the following information about the plugin directly from the iCopyright developer’s website:

Some of the many benefits to publishers of adding the iCopyright Tag include:

• Offers permissions and licenses at the user’s point of contact with the content
• Offers permissions and licenses when users get the content through aggregators, republishers, and other users (self-perpetuating copyright licensing system)
• Enables the publisher to efficiently syndicate their content to thousands of downstream blogs and publisher websites, on a revenue-sharing basis
• Provides advertising-supported free uses for limited printing, emailing and posting by users
• Sells and delivers reprints, email forwarding, posting and republication rights
• Educates users about copyright; about “Fair Use” and when a license is absolutely required
• Ensures that the publisher’s branding, copyright notice and links to the publisher’s website stays with the content when users share it or re-purpose it
• Finds unauthorized uses of the content and compels infringers to buy a license or cease using it
• Markets the publisher’s content to new readers via iCopyright’s Clip&Copy service
• Provides corporate users with a one-click permissions and licensing system through which employees can bill the company to copy or repurpose the publisher’s content
• Integrates with the publisher’s reprint vendor and other partners to provide leads and more opportunities for revenue

The plug-in does require a sign-up, which I found is easiest done through your WordPress installation when installing the plug-in. I don’t see the plug-in for download on the developer’s site, so if you decide to install it, it’s easier just to go through your ‘add plugins’ menu item in WordPress.

Once you’ve downloaded, installed, signed up, and activated the plug-in, it will look like this (though you have some options in the plug-in settings of the display):

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Have a plug-in you use and would like to recommend? Feel free to leave a comment and I’ll check it out and review it! If you use or try iCopyright please share your thoughts with us!