Hi all - any suggestions? I came across a site that took an article I wrote, reworded it (horribly), and gave no credit or links. Any suggestions? Is this common? The article: martial arts in each season My original article: mine
It's a derivative work and a copyright violation. Your best bet is to contact the site owner first. If they won't deal with you, go from there. It happens often.
Yeah potentially the site owner does not even know it. They potentially bought articles who just stole someone else's work and resold it.
That's right. I always stay calm and write the owner a nice, but strict, letter. If you don't hear anything in a couple of business days, step it up from there. BTW, if he/she says they bought it from someone. Tell them that for legal reasons, you need that contact information so you can clear them from the case. When you get the info, check it out and tell others. BTW, I am not a lawyer. Get your own.
Ouch! Talk about butchery! A fine, evocative piece of literary work sliced and botched into dog meat. The article 'source' is given as warriorcrafts.com which is some site selling an ebook on martial arts. I would go after that one - if necessary filing a dmca with the major search engines although the threat is usually enough to have the article removed. It would also be of benefit to you to locate the origin of the 'article' - it may be that someone has added it to a database that is being resold which is obviously not something you would want since it will end up in hundreds of sites. I suspect however, that the place you found it is also the site that reworded (if you can call it that) the article. Or use one of those big sticks (<< note the 'martial arts speak' )
McFox (and all), thank you for the helpful advice. Will do. I could just show up in yoroi, katana in tow....but will try the above road first. Paul