>> I need some advice from the experience FAQ authors on this list.
>> I continually find sections of the Highlander FAQ (which I
>> authored and maintain), without attributions or copyright
>> statements, on Web pages across the Internet. Does anyone have
>> suggestions as to what can be done to deter this practice?
>>
>> My FAQ has a copyright statement forbidding such usage.
If you are rich, you can sue for breach of copyright. This will be a
civil case, so you would have to prove to the court that you had
suffered a financial loss. If your FAQ is available elsewhere on the
Internet for free, then I suspect you would have trouble doing this.
If you are poor, you can interpret this theft as a compliment.
If you are poor and don't want to interpret this theft as a
compliment, then you can send an e-mail to the webmaster and/or
page owner pointing out their breach of netiquette.
We recently received a "cease and desist" letter from a New York
law firm. (A user had used the format and name of a game without
realising it was copyrighted.) Even though there was financial loss
involved, because we ceased and desisted there was little they could
do.
Please note that I am not a lawyer, so you should ignore all of the
above advice.
Regards,
Martin
E-mail: mleese@omg.unb.ca
WWW: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~mleese/
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