on that website. They per se are not actually copying, just allowing
a window to the forum through a lens on another website. Kind of like
you can see feeds of Twitter posts on some websites, or set your
computer desktop to display a live news feed.
The feed shows posts live as they are here to include the yahoo
footers on each post. If anything, it will likely increase membership
here, :)
The thing that is a problem is this... Yahoo allows group owners to
control whether a group is public or private. If Cosmetic Lab is a
public forum where even non members can view posts than this feed is
fine. But if Cosmetic Lab is a "Members Only" forum, than this feed
violates the owners privacy control. Public yahoo forums do get
indexed by Google and Yahoo search, but the private 'members only'
forums do not.
The forum owner would need to contact the owner of that web domain
and ask that the feed of a private forum be removed. Should they
refuse, than you can probably contact the hosting provider and file a
formal NOI (Notice of Infringement) based on the DMCA (Digital
Millenium Copyright Act). Host providers are required to enforce
copyright, patent, and trademark ownership from those that plagerize
or use content without permission or license. But, it would need to
be the Cosmetic Lab forum owner to lodge this I think, as the posts
of this forum belong technically to the forum owner when posted. Only
the forum owner has the legal ownership over all these posts. You
might want to check with Yahoo Legal also (down at the bottom of each
Yahoo page: Copyright Policy link).
Kelly Bloom
Southern Soapers
http://www.southernsoapers.com
-- In CosmeticLab@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Goodman" <robgood@...>
wrote:
>
> > Joe, Kevin, Angie, someone! I found content from this list on
this site:
> > http://mamafani.blogspot.com/
> > Posts are directly lifted! What can we do???
> > Cindy
> > http://www.sagescript.com
> > ------------------------------------
> Heh...cute, YOUR post is now reproduced there!
>
> Is the material misattributed or given without attribution? Please
> understand that Yahoo archives our material, and you don't have to
be a
> member to read it, it can even be picked up by bots. I'm sure it
shows up
> in the Google cache, for instance. No problem AFAICT if it's
properly
> attributed. There are plenty of aggregator sites like this on the
nets.
>
> Funny, though, is how Wikipedia stuff, including material I've
written, gets
> plagiarized. It shows up on the nets with a few words changed,
much as my
> students would do. But for a real rip-off
http://www.partyalong.com was
> full of copyrighted images, including Disney characters, they
lifted. It's
> a business in India which takes advertising. It came to my att'n
when I
> found the copyrighted image at
http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/small2.jpg
> , which I licensed from their mother, on one of that business's
pages,
> concerning party ideas for children. However, it looks like a
completely
> different site now.
>
> Robert
>
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