Oi! Someone has copied my dh's website word for word

[Enid]

same product, differnt country though

lifted huge chunks of MY copy and their brochures and website are the same design

is that legal?

no its copyright .. sue the buggers

probably not.

Can't be. What a cheek. Email them to say you are going to sue them. You have MUCH better grounds than some people I could mention.

i did put a copyright thing on for the copy

don't know whether it hs any legal rights though

whats the time difference in Australia I feel like ringing them up I am so cross.

not legal, no.

A similar thing has happned to me - it's quite common. Best course of action is this:

1. send a very stern email requesting that the website owner "cease and desist" from displaying your "copyright text and pictures" immediately, and mention lawyers (it may be an american legal term, it is known as a c&d notice, but I find it works whatever country you're in)

1. if you get no reply, then try sending a similar notice to the sites hosting company. I can help you trace that if you email me.

1. then you could try either getting an actual lawyer or a friend pretending to be a lawyer. how effective that is depends on what country we're talking about.

1. finally if all else fails, or if you can't afford a lawyer, you can get their copied pages de-listed from the search engines by writing to them (the search engines). you should find that google in particular already lists your pages and not theirs, but it is worth checking

don't ring yet, hang on. looking for the the web page law type thing.

have a freind who does this for a living

nb if website is based in eastern europe or russia, I suggest you skip straight to point 4

Oh australia. my plan should work then!

\link{http://webdesign.about.com/od/copyright/a/aa081700a.htm\this isn't it but may help}

thanks will pass to dh

he is popping

It's happned to me 6 times, and each time they've removed the text after I sent the email, blaming the web development company (yeah, right!)

in our area popping is a pants euphemism for children farting .. why is your DH farting?

I had a friend who had this happen to her... and she had her words copyrighted, also there were chunks of writing from her forum members c&p onto this womans website... she emailed and asked her to remove it, she blamed the company who developed her site!!

This has happened to me too and is maddening. I emailed my displeasure but think someone is selling my info on on ebay too. Can't prove it as it's hearsay, but it makes me realy angry. It's so lazy when, with a little thought, something individual is easy to create.