I'm sorry to hear that this happened to your work. I've had my product stolen
before but believe me when I tell you the world is small and this THIEF will
get his....
Javilk wrote:
> Well, someone did it to me. Someone took one of my free newsletters,
> edited out all my copyright information, added HIS OWN copyright notice,
> and posted it on the web as their own work. (He even called his copyright
> page copyleft.html, showing total ignorance of what "copyleft" is all
> about as well.)
>
> Although I am not at that stage yet, it has crossed my mind that ten,
> twenty, or a few hundred e-mails from association members to an infringer
> and ISP might make them realize that it is not just in isolated opinion.
> It would seem to me that a general agreement amongst us to evaluate such
> alleged infringements for ourselves, and comment upon them to the
> infringer and his or her ISP, might help all of us in these kinds of
> cases. If we have previously known the work of our fellow member, and so
> state in our comments, it would likely lend even greater credence to the
> complaintant's statements.
>
> Or, in the contrary case, let our member know why it does not appear
> to be an infringement, and thus save the complaintant from a counter suit,
> etc. etc. (In my case it is simple -- the tables are identical all the
> way.)
>
> After all, isn't that one of the things a community does? Defend a
> member's rights, buffer a member when he or she is buffeted, and moderate
> an individual's occasional tendencies towards excess?
>
> Thus far, I have issued them a cease and desist notice via E-Mail to
> the domain owner, the on-page address, and their ISP, stating that once
> they have been notified, if they do not take action to insure the page is
> removed, they will be named in any legal action along with the infringer.
>
> The owner of record's e-mail bounced, and his phone number of record
> is not valid. I will follow up with snail mail if I can get the domain
> owner's address out of their ISP.
>
> I had, um, omitted the charge clause some had suggested in the
> past... oversight after a long night on the web.
>
> It would seem to me, that we ought to have some stock forms on our
> web consultant's resource pages, one of which would be a boilerplate
> copyright infringement notice, and instructions on how to serve it for
> maximum legal effectiveness.
>
> The infringer does represent a potential client though, albeit only a
> few hundred dollars worth at best, so I don't want to swing the
> sledgehammer full force at his head yet. However, the second notice will
> asses a charge for every day of failure to comply. Since they are
> advertising the sale of tickets on the web, I think $500 a day wouldn't be
> too far out of line.
>
> Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated, particularly since
> I am in California, and he is allegedly in Atlanta Georgia.
>
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