It had recently come to my attention that the Sapphire Reiki website is using my What is Reiki? article on the front page of their website.
While I'm quite proud of this article, I really do hate my work being stolen without credit. Or asking.
The website gave no email contact whatsoever that I could find, but I called the number of the practitioner and asked him to either link back to my site and properly credit me or to remove my article.
I don't know how long they've had it up, passing it as their content, but that really irks me. I've done a lot of work trying to educate people about Reiki and have been working on getting my own school off the ground. Also, as a writer, I expect to be paid for my work.
I give him a couple of days, then I contact my lawyer. Seem fair?
Edited because I'm not giving him a week.
While I'm quite proud of this article, I really do hate my work being stolen without credit. Or asking.
The website gave no email contact whatsoever that I could find, but I called the number of the practitioner and asked him to either link back to my site and properly credit me or to remove my article.
I don't know how long they've had it up, passing it as their content, but that really irks me. I've done a lot of work trying to educate people about Reiki and have been working on getting my own school off the ground. Also, as a writer, I expect to be paid for my work.
I give him a couple of days, then I contact my lawyer. Seem fair?
Edited because I'm not giving him a week.
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Not someone I'd ever want reiki from. I'd have given him 48 hours myself.
I just happened to find out about it because someone posted Copyscape to twitter. My LJ turned up no matches, but I searched that page because I thought it was one of my best articles. I imagine you have to do individual entries past the public first page. It makes me wonder what else has been snagged that I just don't know about.
good luck with the court date on monday (:
Also don't dick around with e-mails saying "take it down."
He's in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google "DMCA notice" and you'll find several examples of a properly written DMCA form.
Fill one out & send it to him in the body of an e-mail, there's specific language that needs to be used.
If he doesn't take it down AFTER the notice THEN you get a lawyer, as he's looking at fines of $10,000 a day after notice is properly given.
A simple e-mail or call saying "take it down" doesn't count (legally) as "proper notice."
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my friend
Technically you don't need to shell out money to copyright something, because you already own the copyright the moment you create it. It's just easier to prove if you've previously published it (online or elsewhere).