On-line Copyright Infringement
If you're on the internet and post your articles/designs for blogs or websites. Sooner or later the work will ripped off and/or even posted on the thieves website and claiming it as their own.
There are 4 things you can do to have the work removed.
1. Send a friendly email to the site owner, requesting the stolen material be removed. Give them a few days to respond. If there is no response, go to the next step.
2. Send a Cease & Desist letter to the site owner with a deadline for removal of the copyrighted material and will be contacting their host if they don't remove the material. If there is still no response, go to the next step.
3. Send a DMCA Violation Removal Request to Google, requesting a removal of the links from the index.
4. Also send a DMCA Violation Removal Request to their host. Under DMCA, they're required to shut down the site, if you've followed the above steps and they have not responded.
There are 4 things you can do to have the work removed.
1. Send a friendly email to the site owner, requesting the stolen material be removed. Give them a few days to respond. If there is no response, go to the next step.
2. Send a Cease & Desist letter to the site owner with a deadline for removal of the copyrighted material and will be contacting their host if they don't remove the material. If there is still no response, go to the next step.
3. Send a DMCA Violation Removal Request to Google, requesting a removal of the links from the index.
4. Also send a DMCA Violation Removal Request to their host. Under DMCA, they're required to shut down the site, if you've followed the above steps and they have not responded.
Labels: Business, Cease, Copyright, Design, Desist, DMCA, Google, Infringement, Stealing, Thief
Personally, I strongly encourage the filing of the DMCA with the host before the search engine as the engines take up to two or three weeks to reply. Hosts take only a few hours typically and it removes the work from the Web.
Besides, Google makes filing with them such a pain.
However, that is just my personal take, others disagree. Best of luck with your struggles and let me know if I can help in any way!
Posted by
Jonathan Bailey |
February 04, 2008 2:02 PM