eHow article:
I left a comment at the bottom complaining about it but it has been deleted. Lol.
I flagged the article for copyright infringement, lets see what happens.
The picture shown in the article is actually link to your web site's picture. Change the picture on your site to screw with the offending page.
No its not a link. It comes from their server.
It comes from their server here:
Hmm - Michael Straessle, the article's 50 year old author, has a BA in professional writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and claims to work full-time as a writer, which means he's fully aware of US copyright law.
Mr Straessle says he's a "Teacher and Children's Pastor at Victory Fellowship". I wonder if the Victory Fellowship distinguishes itself from others by acknowledging only 9 commandments...
I'd imagine that your attorney could get his contact information from the Alumni Office at the Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock.
They were even stupid enough to display your URL at the bottom of it. Get a screen grab of that quick, before they change it.
Then email and phone their ISP to complain. Whois lookup shows their domain registrar is Enom Inc
Thanks Doug. I took a screen grab of the screen w/ thumbnail photo and with the enlarged photo and url.
I gave the guy an opportunity to contact me, but he deleted my first comment and did not contact me as I requested. I flagged the article with eHow, but I migt also do as you suggested by contacting their ISP.
The funny thing is that if you google the article author, he appears to be a 'real' author and has written a couple books. He should have known better! This isn't some goof ball college kid that wrote this.
On second look you're right, although clicking on the thumbnail gives areference to your page in the "image credit/caption" (see the last line below).,
Copied from viewing the page source code:
"Clamping the Hardwood
yes, I noticed that also. He should have known better. But, did it anyway thinking that I'm just some saw dusty, goofy dude in a garage (true, but, I digress) that doesn't know how to use google.
Funny. Preach, but no practice...
Thanks for the tip.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:37:49 -0800 (PST), the infamous GarageWoodworks scrawled the following:
They give the full link to your site and pic, though, Brain. ;)
I see some of my pics in blogs now and again and consider that it probably makes my site more popular, so I'm not against it.
-- REMEMBER: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up!
Still copyright infringement. Still breaking the law. I gain nothing from my photo being used and he gets paid. No, this is wrong.
A citation under the photo as a photo credit would have been nice. Most people will never click the photo, thus never see the url.
He is passing it off as his own by doing what he did.
If it were, your advice would have been first class.
Every day my server delivers copies of this to requestors around the globe:
Yahoo! has been providing copies of video from my site for about a month now, and would not respond to a request to stop.
It happens all the time ... I've had an entire website copied once, word for word, picture for picture, chart for chart, in India ... no amount of legal threats did the trick. I'm talking technical stuff, a treatise on Internet "domain name service", complete with charts, the underpinnings of the Internet, way back before anyone here could even spell "computer", let alone "www".
And, wrote this 13 years ago and have seen it quoted all over the web, including it being used, word for word, in a movie, without a single credit to the author ... go figure:
Dam Karl! That would have pissed me off big time! I guess anyone that posts art in general is at risk. It's no wonder why artists post their work with huge watermarks over top.
Actually, the quote is: "What's mine is mine and what's yours is ours." Probably, if you were to infringe upon him, he would seek umbrage.
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I just posted this comment; we'll see how long it stays there:
"Why are you posting copyrighted material from garagewoodworks.com without permission?"
Lol! Thanks! :^)
Not that what eHow did was correct, but is there anywhere on garagewoodworks that says anything about copyright? I looked all around and couldn't find any copyright information.
It didn't stay there long. I actually posted the comment about an hour and a half ago, wrote my previous message -- and forgot to post it. Came back to newsgroups just a few minutes ago, saw that still sitting there waiting to be sent, and sent it.
Just checked eHow -- my comment is gone. So I posted this one:
"Why do you: a) post copyrighted material without permission, and b) remove comments complaining about it?"
We'll see how long that stays up....
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