What a Shame!

Michele Erdvig · Host

What a Shame!

Michele Erdvig · Host

The info posted on this website: http://tinyurl.com/7tph5je (third post down) was copied wholesale from my copyrighted website www.IrelandYes.com from my Car Rental Page: http://www.irelandyes.com/cars.html

No one asked me for permission to use my work that I have spent many hours and weeks researching and writing. No one paid for the use of my work. No one even had the decency to link to my website. Instead they presented the info as their own.

Shame on the author for stealing someone else's copyrighted article!!

Michele

Roy · Guru

I agree Michele!

Michele Erdvig · Host

Roy,

You can tell I'm steamed. They even hide their identity on Whois.

Michele

Michele Erdvig · Host

I figure if they are bold enough to steal my stuff they should be publicly shamed online.

Wellsley · Guru

Michele

I'm sorry to hear and see this. You have been so helpful to so many. You deserve much more. As far as being steamed your to nice. Steamed would not have been the word I would have used.

Frank

Roy · Guru

Michele,

Hope you are making progress IDing them.

Judy · Guru

Michele,

I noticed a copyright at the bottom of their web site. How can THEY copyright your copyrighted words? Can't you contact the US copyright office and register a complaint? Or maybe you did that, I hope so.

In order to have copied your words they must be monitoring this site, so I hope THEY see all the complaints and remove the stolen information and apologize to you.

Judy M.

Michele Erdvig · Host

Judy,

They can't copyright my copyrighted material. Funny that they have that on their website. Obviously it means nothing. I would have to sue them. But trying to sue a ghost is difficult, time-consuming and a money pit. Instead I choose to shame them.

People that infringe on copyrights never apologize. There was a guidebook that used one of my sketches in their book. The book publisher apologized. The authors blamed it on the B&B owner, never took responsiblitiy for researching where the sketch came from and were extremely hostile to me for even bringing up the matter with them and wasting their time. That tells you a bit about the authors and how much time they invest in research.

Maybe I'm an oddball for being so exacting.

Michele