Re: [epub] What do you think of this?!

["Angela Giles Klocke" <jaklocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Angela Giles Klocke" <jaklocke@bellsouth.net>

I have to comment on this one!

I have seen this done and I think others find it okay, especially if they
think they are helping you.  But sometimes I guess it is pure plagiarism or
ignorance.  I fell into the "ignorance" category about two weeks ago when I
copied the background of another's site.  Little did I know this was wrong.
The site I copied was actually copied from someone else's and the original
owner contacted me about it after she went to my site (confused yet!?).  I
had no idea that it was illegal to take the background and place it on your
own and I'm sure so many other people out here in Cyberspace don't realize
it, either (especially when you have the tools that allow you to "save
picture as".).  So perhaps someone copied your site out of ignorance.  At
least I'd rather hope it would go that way instead out of being done out of
pure malice.

I'm sure it was quite unsettling, as it was for the person who's background
I had.  I'd try to contact the person again, nicely, and ask them of their
true intentions.  Maybe it's ignorance...

My thoughts,
Angela Giles Klocke
Publisher/Editor The Writing Parent
http://www.geocities.com/soho/study/6219
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>From: Eva Almeida <healthandmoneytips@healthandmoneytips.com>
>
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I was checking my referrer logs as I usually do each week when I
>noticed something strange.  One of my gifs was accessed but
>not the page that corresponds to that gif.
>
>So, I looked at the page that was using my gif and low and behold...
>there is my whole page copied on another site.  The only changes
>were a few of the affiliate buttons and the "site is maintained by" someone
>else of course.
>
>It is a weird feeling to view another person's page with your work on
>it.  What was interesting was that it was the archives to my newsletter.
>The links to my newsletter articles were intact and even linked directly
>to my site.
>
>I emailed the webmaster and mentioned that I appreciated the
>extra exposure but that she should have informed me that they
>were displaying my archives on her site.
>
>I didn't hear back from her (why am I not surprised), but the next
>thing that happened was my logs indicated hits from that site again.
>I went back to the page to see the layout was the same, except that
>her newsletter replaced mine now.  The only thing that hadn't
>changed was the title of the page still read the same as mine...
>"An Archive of The Marketing Edge Tip-Zine Issues" even though
>her newsletter has another name altogether.
>
>Makes me wonder if some people have all their wits about them...
>
>When I decided to use a similar layout to another webmaster, I
>emailed him and asked for permission, plus I gave him credit on
>each page for his designs...that is the way to do business on the
>net (in my opinion).
>
>What is your opinion?
>
>Eva Almeida

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