Re: copyright

Hi Michael

First off to prove copyright infringement is one thing.
To file suit or any legal action the copyright must first be registered.
$30

You may see your old site at www.archive.org.
Great source for this type of situation :)

2 great sources for this

http://www.whatiscopyright.org
www.ivanhoffman.com


meta tags are not grounds for copyright infringement (too ambiguous) unless
they contain your company's name and/or trademark in them. A great deal of
meta tags are generated by software.

I am not a lawyer but I do know a great deal about this.

Save your dime ;)

Many users of the same software will generate an optimized page for the
search engines and it could be that this was optimized by this type of
software.

The legal stuff again: I am not a lawyer and this is not meant to be
construed as legal advice.

bob L
RE-Data.com
Thought For The Day:
I know no time which is lost more thoroughly than that
devoted to arguing on matters of fact with a disputant
who has no facts, but only very strong convictions

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Muehlendorf" <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:03 AM
Subject: copyright


> Hello List -
>
> Something strange happened to me last night. I had been doing searches
from
> AltaVista, MSN, Yahoo, etc. for a site that I recently did, just to see
how
> its standing was percolating up (or down). It's doing way beyond my
> expectations.
>
> When I was done, just for the heck of it, I did a search for an old site
> that I did in 1996 for a local manufacturing company which no longer
> exists, and no longer has a site. When I had done the search engine
> registration on this site, the results were absolutely phenomenal. I used
> techniques that I had picked up on these lists, and other places (plus I
> sacrificed a couple of chickens...hehehe). In any case, some search terms
> for this particular site would bring it up as number one in Yahoo, MSN,
> Lycos, etc. etc. It was great.
>
> Well, when I did this "fun" search last night, there was a URL that came
up
> in the results, call it xyz.com, and the synopsis that the search engine
> gave was, word for word, the "description" meta tag from my old site. So,
I
> clicked the link, went to the site, and viewed the HTML source. The meta
> tags for "description" and "keywords" were VERBATIM from my old site from
> 1996, and this site was published in 1998. I immediately felt that whoever
> did this site "stole" my meta tags because of the great results they got,
> hoping that they would get the same good results.
>
> Well, I was flabbergasted. Then, I was p*ssed! I started to write an email
> to the webmaster, but had second thoughts. I think I just want to retain a
> lawyer. What do you guys think?
>
> Any comments or help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
>
>

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