Copied content, what to do?

Zwielicht said:

You beat me to it. I was going to add that when other websites plagiarise your content (especially if they do it verbatim and don't even bother rewording the content), they'll more than likely be penalised by Google. Even if you don't file a DMCA, they'll be removed from the SERPs eventually.

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Yes and no - depends who Google crawls first. And, if they crawl the copied content first then you are the one who will get penalized. Might want to look into the rel=author tag.

There's a great article on protecting yourself the best possible way on SearchEngineLand - search for their "definitive guide to google authorship markup" (article 123218)