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Someone has sent me a link to a website which is an almost exact copy of
one I produced. It looks like someone has sucked in the HTML (produced
via server-side includes in the original) to MS FrontPage and
re-rendered it with that, having changed one or two names and telephone
numbers.

Previously, the people who put up that site asked if they could have the
content and design; I said no (I have records of that in email).

What in practice will be the best way to get them to stop doing it? I
don't believe that the small claims process is of any use here, but is
there some other low-cost way of dealing with it? It's not a matter of
money, but I don't want them to do this.

Daniele

Just going through the same process with a site we did 12 months ago,
there's 2 companies that have ripped off the content and layout for that
one. (It's great what google can do when you feed it a typo to search for
:-))

In our case the customer owns the copyright so we've just given them the
details and some advice, but they're going to get a cease and desist letter
sent out from their solicitors.


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Regards

John Lyons
Netserve Consultants Limited

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| Someone has sent me a link to a website which is an almost exact copy of
| one I produced. It looks like someone has sucked in the HTML (produced
| via server-side includes in the original) to MS FrontPage and
| re-rendered it with that, having changed one or two names and telephone
| numbers.
|
| Previously, the people who put up that site asked if they could have the
| content and design; I said no (I have records of that in email).
|
| What in practice will be the best way to get them to stop doing it? I
| don't believe that the small claims process is of any use here, but is
| there some other low-cost way of dealing with it? It's not a matter of
| money, but I don't want them to do this.

My first question: have you registered the work?

NotMe <me@privacy.net> wrote:

What? How does one register a web site? In any case there is absolutely
no requirement to register work in order to obtain copyright protection
- that exists as soon as the work is created.

Daniele