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Stolen personal content

[potbelly]

My wife runs a 4 yr old website supporting parents of children with special needs.
On the homepage is a short paragraph outlining her heartfelt and personal reasons for setting up the site.
This paragraph is very personal as well as quite emotional.

I have just found this same paragraph reproduced on a profit making website. It has been re-personilised but is in effect the same paragraph being used to promote sales of product to parents of disabled kids.

What action should i take?
My wife is very upset that anyone could take her inner feelings and reproduce them in the context of an emotional sales pitch.

I don`t want to just steam in with a heavy email if someone can suggest a better approach.
Thanks.

[agbenny]

Write them first. Mention your feelings.
There are many ways discussed in WebmasterWorld.
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Hope these should help.

I hope already many copies of WWW available on the web itself. We also had such painful experinces, Entire site with same design :-( , unfortunalty we do not have much legal protection in our countries, atleast US has some to yell.

[SkyDog]

Most people who steal, do so because they think they can get away with it. Usually the initial step in protecting your copyright is all that's needed. This would be to send the company an email or give them a phone call informing them that they are infringing on your copyrighted materials.

[potbelly]

Thanks for all the advice and links.

My initial email was polite.

A short volley of exchanged emails involving some playground stuff ("my dad is bigger than your dad" " I was here first") has resulted in them pledging to remove the "quote" during the next few days.

No apology, but at least they have backed down.

Thanks again.

[simonuk]

At least you got a result.

I have had many problems with copyright thefts and breeches and in 90% of cases the initial few emails warning them and the their host is enough to get my work removed. I'm really glad it worked out for you.