Site stealing my website templates for selling!

What procedure to follow?

[silverbytes]

Hello

I received a spam mail today offering web design templates and my templates was there!
A site from Argentina is offering flash made templates I made for a guy in other country. The guy I sold the templates didn't trade with them, they are just stealing and offering, my templates and others.

The guy I sold templates will ask them to take off but my designs are being robbed so I'd like to know what can I do in this case.

[Corey Bryant]

Templates are always being stolen / pirated and found on warez forums.

If he is selling these templates though, you might be able to contact the ISP & report it.

-Corey

[silverbytes]

Can I demand the company responsables with a lawyer in this case?
The ISP may take down the site but my work is still robbed...

[Corey Bryant]

You can try it. It might not be worth it (unfortunately). You would have to prove they were your files. It would take a lot of time.

-Corey

[MatthewHSE]

I've heard it said that you're very fortunate to even cover your own costs if you take someone to court over copyright infringement. Most of the time you'll lose money.

[HitsAndClicks]

I agree, you would be lucky to ever recover your costs by pursuing it legally. I would look to technical solutions to the problem, and try and place pressure on him with your own efforts instead of an attorney's.

[JayCee]

Try a search here on "copyright", there is a lot of good info.

I'm no lawyer, but the U.S. Copyright Office has a good site here:
[copyright.gov...]

From what i understand, if you actually register your work with the Copyright Office (on a CD - not a big deal or a large expense), then you have a much stronger legal case and if you win, the other guy pays costs. If not registered (only the copyright notice published), you have a much weaker case and may have to pay costs even if you win.

Probably harder to enforce internationally, i expect.