digitalv - 3:55 am on May 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

alika,

Congratulations on how you handled the situation, that is a great FIRST step but it's not the end. Now that a third party (eBay) has validated your ownership, it's time to take it to the next level.

Send the seller an invoice for use of your content, demanding 100% of what each item sold for. If he sold 500 copies of your article for say $10 a piece, then he owes you $5,000. Let him know that if he DOESN'T pay this little "licensing fee" of yours, that you'll be going after him for copyright infringement. Do this through certified mail on a company letterhead, not through e-mail.

Stopping him down is not enough, you did the work and you deserve the profit from it.