If someone is using my web template without my permission then how i can take legal action? I know every country has her own rule. How to find my country rule?
Before considering legal actions, may I advice you to send them a cease and desist email first? Or ask their web hosting provider to stop their site. Try to opt for a private settlement or mediation. Litigation is an expensive option to be taken only at the last resort. Frankly the only one to benefit from any legal action would be the lawyers themselves. Maybe you can tell us which country are you from so that other members may contribute their opinions?
I think there are quite a number of members from Pakistan, perhaps they would be kind enough to share their experiences. What is your estimated loss in this? If it is a typical template, loss wise will be trivial compared to the cost of going to the courts (do correct me if I am wrong). Depending on where the copyright infringer host, it would be far easier to ask the hosting company to take down his site.
Let say i contact their web host will they remove his web? Not too much loss but this is not fair coz everyone pay for the template.
From experience most hosts especially those in the USA will remove if you show that you are the owner and the person is using your template without permissions.
Before you think about legal action, sending him an email first asking where he got the template might be a good idea. The only reason I say this is because I hired someone to design a template for me a few years ago. What I got was a template that he had designed and sold to someone else first. How I found out he did this was recieving a nasty, threatening email from the first buyer accusing me of stealing his template. We both had paypal reciepts stating we paid this guy for the exact template but because his invoice was dated earlier than mine I had to find a different template and was out the money. So even though he has your template, he may have purchased it from someone else who stole it.
Yeap this is good advice, this always happens and sometimes the alleged copyright infringer may be a victim himself.
like everyone else suggested, you should ask the owenr of the site to take it down, if he doesnt comply then contact the service provider.....legal action is the last thing you want to do, due to cost of time and money
Depending on country, a legal letter which is essentially a template can cost 100 bucks, if to and fro letters from each others lawyers etc, it can easily run into thousands, that is if no court case is involved.