Someone has lifted everything from our website...advice

[Mr Overheads]

Lordbenny said:

Documentation isn't that important at the moment as the infringement is so bleeding obvious...they have used our photographs and our company name to promote their business!

Still take lot's of screenshots before the letter lands

[jammy_basturd]

Timsta said:

Not 28 days. I'd give them until the end of tomorrow.

I agree, I was going to say 7 days max.

[Timsta]

jammy_basturd said:

Timsta said:

Not 28 days. I'd give them until the end of tomorrow.

I agree, I was going to say 7 days max.

They are currently breaking the law. 24 hours max to fix it. If it is who I think it is, it can be fixed in an hour. Take it down, put up a holding page. Job done.

[Lordbenny]

Ok, screen shots have been taken. I presume it's ok to send an e-mail rather than snail mail, I can attach screen shots then?

[Timsta]

Lordbenny said:

Ok, screen shots have been taken. I presume it's ok to send an e-mail rather than snail mail, I can attach screen shots then?

Yes, I would email. I would also try to follow up with a call to the company's legal department.

[jammy_basturd]

Lordbenny said:

Ok, screen shots have been taken. I presume it's ok to send an e-mail rather than snail mail, I can attach screen shots then?

Send an email and a letter sent via Signed For delivery.

[Hoofy]

Amateurish said:

Timsta said:

There is no need in the UK. Copyright is implicitly granted.

Correct

That may be so but it doesn't stop someone else copying your site.

[Timsta]

Hoofy said:

Amateurish said:

Timsta said:

There is no need in the UK. Copyright is implicitly granted.

Correct

That may be so but it doesn't stop someone else copying your site.

Nor does a 'C' at the bottom of the site.

[Amateurish]

Hoofy said:

Amateurish said:

Timsta said:

There is no need in the UK. Copyright is implicitly granted.

Correct

That may be so but it doesn't stop someone else copying your site.

And your point is?

[Lordbenny]

Hoofy said:

Amateurish said:

Timsta said:

There is no need in the UK. Copyright is implicitly granted.

Correct

That may be so but it doesn't stop someone else copying your site.

No but it makes it illegal to do so!

[Hoofy]

Amateurish said:

And your point is?

It's generally a wise thing to do.

[Hoofy]

Lordbenny said:

No but it makes it illegal to do so!

That's exactly my point. I'm talking global.

[Hoofy]

Timsta said:

Nor does a 'C' at the bottom of the site.

I'm glad we agree.

[Akiraprise]

We had something similar a while back with one of our sites, although they didn't bother hosting the images etc themselves.

So we changed the pictures on the server to something along the lines of 'stop being thieving s' and just waited...

Few hours later they'd taken the site down. Of course this isn't the most professional way of doing it, but it was more fun!

[blindswelledrat]

juice said:

Job Jobbed.

In real life, every time you say something do you say "Job jobbed" and wink in an exaggerated fashion before shooting the other person with pretend finger pistols?

[H18 ENF]

Do we have links to see the two sites in question? Or is that not allowed?

[KFC]

As usual with anything internet related, there is some pretty awful advice being thrown around.



The content on the website, did you actually create it? Or was it on there when you bought it? If the latter then you need to double check who it was that actually done the stealing. It might have been the person you bought the site from and its you thats in the wrong...


Nearly every UK host will act on a DMCA complaint so its not a bad route to go down since there are plenty templates ready to send.

You could complain to Nominet - if they've registered a domain and are then passing themselves off as you, it would almost certainly be seen as an abusive registration.

[juice]

blindswelledrat said:

In real life, every time you say something do you say "Job jobbed" and wink in an exaggerated fashion before shooting the other person with pretend finger pistols?

Get off my webcam

[jonamv8]

Provide a link to your website?

I'd document everything first. Then give them 7 days.

[Lordbenny]

KFC said:

As usual with anything internet related, there is some pretty awful advice being thrown around.



The content on the website, did you actually create it? Or was it on there when you bought it? If the latter then you need to double check who it was that actually done the stealing. It might have been the person you bought the site from and its you thats in the wrong.

It was definitely created by us...our company has been in existence for years before the robbers! The pictures they are using are in the database of hundreds of pictures we inherited and they are actually using our name. They are a very large events company who cater for every kind of event imaginable whereas we specialise in just two or three events.

I'm not in a position to give links to the two websites although I'd really like to.