Hi Friends, I have write appx. 150 articles for a client but at the end of the project he denied to complete the payment whether i sent all articles to him. but still he is using my articles on his website & after many request he is not completed the payment or not deleted the articles from his site. Please Help me now what can i do????? Please...... there any place where i can lodge legal complaint against him?
I guess there is nothing much you can do it now? By the way where you working in a freelancing site. I work in few of them and request all my clients to escrow the money first. Only then i start working. I don't know what legal steps you can take in your country. But try talking to few experts in this matter. Hope this helps.
I am just curious that how come you continue to write up to 150 articles without getting paid. Even when you have written 10 or 20 articles, and not getting paid, something must be wrong.
Just move on, I'm offering article writing service too at Warrior Forum. There are several clients like the ones that you have mentioned above. Just move on, forget about it and focus your energy on another project. This is just part of the business.
No, this is not just 'part of the business'. People who brush this kind of thing off as 'part of the business' are the reason that people like this continue to do what they do. You can start by sending him a Cease and Desist letter. (You can search for stock letters available for writers online.) This gives him 72hrs to remove the material to which you hold the copyright. If he does not, you send one to his provider host and keep going up the chain from there. There are other avenues to follow as well. If sending the letter does not work or you can't find one, contact me and I will help you.
1. You can send the C&D. I usually give them 48 hours to comply before moving forward, but legally you can go above them without contacting them at all - in other words you don't have to ask someone to obey the law before you can do something about it. 2. Next contact their advertisers with a DMCA notice or other notice where appropriate. Show proof of the copyright infringement / stolen content. For example, if they use Adsense, you can have their entire Adsense account banned. 3. Next contact the three top search engines with proof and a full list of URLs - also with a DMCA notice or other applicable notice depending on where you're both located. Request all URLs to be de-indexed. Now you've officially hit them where hurts - traffic and income generation. 4. ONLY THEN should you contact their hosting provider with another notice, requesting that content at each of those specific URLs should be removed from the server. If you mistakenly do this first, you can't do the real damage - things will stay in SEs for a while, and they'll still be able to monetize other content (which is potentially also stolen content from others). You need to keep it visible on their server to proceed on those fronts. That's my general procedure, and it rarely fails.
You should have the original (dated) copies. You should have a link to the public order request from the client if there was one (like an ad). You should have copies of all information exchanges - their instructions, copies of the emails you sent the actual articles with, etc. If a specific payment method was discussed in those messages, you should be willing to show account records that prove no payment was received. etc.