If others are reposting your content, how do you tell Google you are the original author?

[brianflannery]

A huge amount of my content is being copy and pasted to facebook, tumblr, wattpad etc...

Is there an easy way to tell Google I am the original author?

(How can I tell if this content theft affecting my rankings?)

[EGOL]

You asked this same question a few days ago, three people answered.

http://moz.com/community/q/stolen-content-reposted-on-other-sites-how-does-this-affect-ranking

[brianflannery]

I was looking for an answer to the 2nd part of the question.

Is there an easy way to tell google that you are the author sitewide?

It would take years to go around and do DCMAs for every piece of content that's been stolen.

One thing I've noticed: In Image Search, Google is able to do a very good at tracking the orignal picture and ranking that. In Web search, Google does a very poor job and often ranks copied content higher than the original.