From what has been said the offender has removed the content from the blog site, that should be the end of the matter. He/she was in breach of BlogSpirits terms of use which state "5. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary rights of any party ;" It sounds as if it was simply a naive mistake, if it happens again complain to the hosting service Blogspirit. Cheers Guy Rossbret wrote: >Hello All, >I set up and run the UK Institutions website, and have put in alot of hard work in updating and improving the information available. >I have a copyright disclaimer on each page of the site: >www.institutions.org.uk > >A certain website has copied copious amounts of information from my site and pasted it on to their web blog as if their own: >http://lancasterthecity.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/week46/index.html > >I have written a comment on their form stating that what they have done is plagiarism and violates copyright ..... but the answer is that "it was a bit of fun" > >Is there anything I can do about this please? > >With thanks, Jan > > >==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html. Think to keep your Anti-Virus up-to-date! > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > -- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells The site that gives you facts not promises! http://anguline.co.uk/ An organisation dedicated to bring rare books on CD, at an affordable price, to the local history researcher and to the family history researcher.

Hello Guy, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the information is still there as of now. The whole section "Hospitals, past and present" including text regarding Asylums, Almshouses and Hospitals is copied. I have now written to the web blog host, and await a reply. Thanks again, Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Etchells" <guy.etchells@virgin.net> To: <COPYRIGHT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [COPYRIGHT] Website >From what has been said the offender has removed the content from the blog site, that should be the end of the matter.