Copyright infringement of website content

[RedEarth]

OK BAJR, I'll fill you in with a few details via message and we can see what happens!

[Jack]

I'd love to know whose website 'stole' from whos............but guess will never know coz of AUP's.

I doubt whether copyright covers 'what an evaluation is' etc. as these definitions have been defined and redefined over and over again by so many people, organisations etc they have become 'factoids'.
But not sure how much of a website would be copyrighted.
Usual practical guidance is if its substantially altered its ok I think? It is different if you are publishing ideas/work that is others. Or if you are selling it.

Photographs are indeed a different matter though.

[BAJR]

Ta... I will await details.

Photographs and graphics.. Illustrators and Photographers suffer so much from this!
it is ... theft.

[RedEarth]

Hopefully I have just sent you a message, do let me know if it hasn't come through.

[BAJR]

Received and message sent to company. Friendly warning. Hope they listen

[RedEarth]

Well done BAJR, that does seem to have done the trick.

[BAJR]

A gentle word from BAJR often as good as it gets.

Hope they learn from that.

[RedEarth]

I'd love to know whose website 'stole' from whos............but guess will never know coz of AUP's.

I doubt whether copyright covers 'what an evaluation is' etc. as these definitions have been defined and redefined over and over again by so many people, organisations etc they have become 'factoids'.
But not sure how much of a website would be copyrighted.
Usual practical guidance is if its substantially altered its ok I think? It is different if you are publishing ideas/work that is others. Or if you are selling it.

Photographs are indeed a different matter though.

This is the problem with copyright, there are a lot of misconceptions about it. What I am writing now is copyright and what you wrote in your original message is too, but if I was to just copy your text into another message on this Forum and pass it off as my own I would be in breach of copyright. Since I would not be making any money from that I doubt you would be bothered, unless it in some way led to you being in a slanderous/libellous situation. Similarly if I was in some way making money from it.

While there are plenty of definitions of 'what an evaluation is' out there, the IfAs for starters, copying directly and sticking on your website is a breach of copyright and since you would be passing it off as your own, and potentially making money from it (as it acts as advertising) the copyright holder might well be pretty peed off. Add to that the downright laziness and deviousness of not bothering to come up with some original text and it doesn't come across very well.

Photos are no different, but people tend to get a lot more upset about their re-use without permission, perhaps partly because its very quick to spot when one has been pinched.

Hopefully BAJR's quiet word has done the trick, it certainly seems to have.

[P Prentice]

one wonders what else this company is prepared to steal - anyone bother reading their reports for instance?

[Jack]

This is the problem with copyright, there are a lot of misconceptions about it. What I am writing now is copyright and what you wrote in your original message is too, but if I was to just copy your text into another message on this Forum and pass it off as my own I would be in breach of copyright. Since I would not be making any money from that I doubt you would be bothered, unless it in some way led to you being in a slanderous/libellous situation. Similarly if I was in some way making money from it.

While there are plenty of definitions of 'what an evaluation is' out there, the IfAs for starters, copying directly and sticking on your website is a breach of copyright and since you would be passing it off as your own, and potentially making money from it (as it acts as advertising) the copyright holder might well be pretty peed off. Add to that the downright laziness and deviousness of not bothering to come up with some original text and it doesn't come across very well.

Photos are no different, but people tend to get a lot more upset about their re-use without permission, perhaps partly because its very quick to spot when one has been pinched.

Hopefully BAJR's quiet word has done the trick, it certainly seems to have.

Ah, I see now.

Found this.........

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-about.htm

'............Copyright does not protect ideas for a work. It is only when the work itself is fixed, for example in writing, that copyright automatically protects it. This means that you do not have to apply for copyright.'

Interesting.........

explains why ages ago someone advised me that the best way to protect an idea from being stolen was to write it down and then post it to yourself.