MixedPower.com taking articles from Greenhybrid.com - GreenHybrid

ElectricTroy · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 12:34 PM

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The owner Jason wrote:
I'm actually quite frustrated with sites like MixedPower.com, which republish entire articles from other websites (including GreenHybrid). This is in blatant violation of copyright laws and gives them an unethical advantage with search engines, news engines, etc. I just posted a thread there about it and it's been deleted.

Ya know, I once cross-posted an article from a professional, freelance writer to rec.arts.startrek. By the next day, I had a lawyer contacting me, and threatening legal action.

I think you should do the same. If it was just 1 article, I'd let it slide, but you said "multiple articles" which is clearly a violation of copyright.

Get yourself a lawyer. It will be good practice for when you enter politics. ;-)

troy

Jason · #2 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 12:57 PM

Troy,
I have no legal rights unless it's my work he republished. I did contact the authors. I also attempted to contact his host, but all of their email addresses currently aren't working. I'm not worrying about the whole situation for now.

JeromeP · #3 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 04:34 PM

Isn't there some kind of blanket form of copyright that since you are the host of the document or information that you can protect it for the original writer?

Jason · #4 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 04:36 PM

I don't believe there is, and I've discussed this with a web development/business community. Unfortunately, it's extremely easy for the unethical to gain a significant advantage when they're not playing by the rules.

JeromeP · #5 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 04:40 PM

Have you thought about encouraging your article writers to enforce their copyright privileges?

Jason · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 04:44 PM

I have informed all authors of the violations. It is up to them to pursue any legal action should they decide to. Most people either don't care or are not interested in seeing that their work is published ethically.

ElectricTroy · #7 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:22 AM

Is the original authors don't care, then there's nothing you can do.

Perhaps the reason they don't care, is because they consider those works to be "public domain"?

troy

ElectricTroy · #8 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by dancurranjr From mixedpower.com

Articles come from all over the world, some are written by visitors to MixedPower, others are sent with "Submit New News" - If the article is from another site the original source is listed at the end under "SOURCE:" to give proper recognition.

Is this accurate? Did mixedpower give credit to Greenhybrid.com?

troy

Jason · #9 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:51 AM

Yes, there are links as they state. Legally, it doesn't make a difference. If I were to republish all of the content from the New York Times and make my own newspaper, would it be alright as long as I give credit? I think not.

Jason · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 03:16 PM

Gee. Talk about complicated. And, again: if I don't own the copyright, I can't do a thing. I suppose I could contact MSNBC and AutomobileMag as their article rights were violated, as well.

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