Posted by NCLisa on 6/25/07 10:40pm
Msg #196937

Advertising - Borrowing from others

I have to say that some of the notaries in my area sicken me. I found part of my website in another notaries ad on Craigslist. If these people want to advertise, fine, but at least write your own material!! Don't steal mine or anyone elses for that matter!!

Reply by Charles_Ca on 6/25/07 10:53pm
Msg #196939

Re: Advertising - Borrowing from others, I notice that you

have the copyright symbol and date (by the way only one date is necessary, the last date you added content would suffice) on your website. In my opinion you would be perfectly within your rights to write a letter to the plagiarist putting them on notice that you website is copyrighted and that you intend to vigorously defend your intellectual property. Ask that they remove the copyrighted material or pay for it and give them a date by which to comply. I am not suggesting that you follow up by court action but you might follow up with a bill if they don't take it down and update the bill regularly, I suspect it will get their attention.

Reply by ZeeCA on 6/25/07 10:57pm
Msg #196940

Re: Advertising - Borrowing from others, I notice that you

you can also notify craig and he will take it off his list as he keeps tabs on it all.....

Reply by NCLisa on 6/26/07 5:59am
Msg #196954

Re: Advertising - Borrowing from others, I notice that you

I've emailed them through Craigslist, but don't know if they will even respond.

Reply by PAW on 6/26/07 5:19am
Msg #196950

I have had the same problem. Some have even stolen whole pages from my website and pasted it into their own. Some of my pages have links to other pages, but since the thief doesn't steal the other pages, the links are broken. It makes it very easy to track that way.

Reply by NCLisa on 6/26/07 5:58am
Msg #196953

I had someone steal my entire website last year, but she changed it after I posted about it on here. It wouldn't be so bad if someone in CA did it, but when someone in your own market area steals 100% of your information, even your "catch phrase", then it really bites!

How lazy can people be that they can't even design their own ads and websites, they need to steal them from someone else??!! It really isn't that hard to design a webpage!

Reply by dickb/wi on 6/26/07 11:56am
Msg #196997

place a copywrite on your web site.......... n/m

Reply by dickb/wi on 6/26/07 11:58am
Msg #196998

sorry didn't read far enough to see what others wrote.... n/m

Reply by Todd/OH on 6/26/07 3:39pm
Msg #197031

Persue this. Don't let them take your work !! n/m

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 6/26/07 9:23pm
Msg #197083

Lisa - see your p/m n/m