RE: FN-FORUM: Website RIP

date posted 7th January 2008 11:24

Thanks guys,

Just a bit of an update.

I sent the client an email advising that they have breached copyright
and if they don't remove the copy then we will have no option but to
seek legal advice and I have been assured it will be removed. SO all's
well.

While I appreciate the comments re get on with business and forget the
small infringement, the client noticed the infringement and asked us
what they/we could do. Good customer service aims took over and it
seems for the time taken to write an email we have a happy client.

Further if you let one small item pass then comes another and so on till
you find your competition taking real liberties. It's the principle of
the matter.

Besides we have a joint venture in the same field going live in a couple
of weeks where the content is the value and I don't want this guy
getting any ideas.

Chris - ISP was going to be my next stop - Thanks

Thanks again all

Ash

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Chris
Austen
Sent: 07 January 2008 03:38
To: Ashraf Aswat
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Website RIP


On 6 Jan 2008 08:06:34 -0000, Ashraf Aswat [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
> I have a website that we manage and some of the content has been
ripped
> by a competitor, what are the options?

Was I the only person expecting this message to say "we need new
hosting and fast"...?

> How can I get this guy to remove the copy?

First off, is it a business site or someone's personal page? If the
latter, let it pass - only trademarks are diluted by non-enforcement.

Secondly, the copyright holder has to be the one to act, so if you
signed over copyright when you signed the contract, it'll have to be
your client that pursues infringement.

Options, then... polite cease and desist letter? Cheap, and it'll
probably do the job - he might not have realised he's being naughty.
If he does, a solicitor's letter should tell him you mean business.

Complain to his ISP that he's hosting your copyrighted material? That
seems to work. ;)

You could seek an injunction requiring removal. Ask a solicitor about
that one; I'm not a lawyer, and free advice isn't worth the money you
paid for it.

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