How To Attack A Company That Fequently Breaches Copyright

Martyn Willes

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How To Attack A Company That Fequently Breaches Copyright

« on: 11-12-09 at 05:16 am »

My work is being copied verbatim and then incorrectly attributed to an unrelated third party.

I write/edit an eNewsletter (www.getwet-asia.com) that is designed to highlight upcoming, mostly water sports related, events in Asia and particularly the Philippines.

A much larger global eNewsletter (sailworld.com) claims to do the same for the whole World. To the best of my knowledge they employ an editor in Hong Kong who scans various Asia resources, including my eNewsletter webpage (I took him off the email distribution list a long time ago) and he then copies my material verbatim (and probably that of others), credits the source to an unrelated third party and passes it on to his masters (sailworld.com) who presumably pay him for his "effort".

I have written to sailworld.com repeatedly on the subject and I get no reply from them.

How can I attack sailworld.com for breaching copyright and giving false attribution for text and images and thus embarrassing them sch that they apologize and or correct the errors and or to cease copying my material at all.

I have no money to fight a case in the international courts (for surely this is where the jurisdiction would reside). Are there any other zero or minuscule cost options open to me?

Any advice gratefully received.

Martyn


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Smokin

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Re: How To Attack A Company That Fequently Beaches Copyright

« Reply #1 on: 11-12-09 at 09:15 am »

not a lawyer, but things get very complicated when dealing with other countries and their copyright laws.

However in the US, if the server or website is located in the states, a simple DMCA takedown notice will work, or at least start the ball rolling in the right direction.