Okay - I will try to tell without too much waffling.
Last winter I went back to UK to work - things not too rosy with DH so needed time away from each other.
Anyhoo, friends BF has a company with his dad and wanted some writing work doing for their website.
I agreed to do it - paid natch.
Things were going well, I sent them 1st draft and never heard anything more - in the meantime I found out I was preggers (obv gone back to GC to see DH) and couple of months later went back to GC.
I never followed up and neither did they.
March last year they start putting my copy on their website. I invoice and say if any more goes on will invoice for those too.
Hear nothing and keep chasing eventually they respond and don't want to pay.
Blah blah blah dispute - with them saying that the work isn't mine and that they dictated it to me. I say yes it is mine and send them letter stating they are infringing my copyright and eventually they take copy down.
Blah blah blah - sometime in Dec they loaded part of my copy and some really badly plagiarised versions of it onto website.
I send them another letter asking them to take it down.
They replay saying that they are tired of my delusions and asking me to pay for them seaking legal advice.
Their lawyer says that IF the copy is theirs then they can sue me for copyright infringement - which is true, except that it isn't theirs I can prove it is mine.
And breathe.
Got to go and sorty grumpy baby - will catch up later.