Don't Visit This Website --- they steal posts from people's blogs

[lauraslefthook]

I was checking my personal blog and noticed a new pingback.  I went over to see the site, assuming it would be a site that had a link to my crochet pattern for a library bag.  Instead of a link they had posted the entire pattern, including my photo without asking permission.

The site is supposedly all about being ecofriendly, but I guess being ethical is not part of their business plan.  I just emailed them and put a comment on the page informing them that they had stolen my property.  I wonder if they will even bother to respond or take it down.

So, please don't be a patron of ecofriendlydaily --- they are apparently trying to make money off of other people's hard work.

[sour_blueberry]

Feb. 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM

If you do not have a copyright or patient, then what on the web is free. We spend an entire chapter in Business Law on this. It is totally legal unless you have a copyright or patient. Sorry you had to find out AFTER your post was copied.

[lauraslefthook]

Feb. 22, 2009 at 7:55 PM

I don't know if you understand what a copyright is.  I automatically have copyright to my work and the right to share it the way I see fit; it is not automatically free for the taking.  I guess you do not understand copyright.

It is a patent, not a patient.

Here is a link to some clear information about copyright and the internet:

 

http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm

(Original Poster)