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i felt playful just now so i downloaded Google into my school's PC and perform search on 'teekc'. It returns 4 pages of result. Mostly about the Icewind Dale 2 faq i wrote. As i went through the search result, i found out that there are several websites that posted my faq without at least notifying me.

One particular serious case is some guy edited my work as his/hers and posted in edbis.com forum. The admin. of the forum 'Corax' replied "very well done" or something to the topic. What makes me boil is that edbis.com did sent me email for permission to post way back in August. The person who sent this mail was 'Corax'.

Should i went through each website that posted my work without notifying me and tell them to take it off? i feel kind of like "praying mantis using its arms to stop a car" -- making futile attempt.

Could someone give me some strength here, like what they did in Dragon Balls?

 

It certainly can't hurt to try, although I don't think I'd expect much. Good luck!

 

Go for it!

If that doesn't work, at least ask for the credit that you are due. Something like, originally from "teekc" Edited/stolen by "Corex"

I have two sayings I like, both for my charcters and myself "I will not be denied" and "I have been denied"

Try to work with the first one. If things don't go so well learn to use the second.

Either way, "May the Gods show favor upon your cause."

 

Nothing you can do I'm afraid.

There're no laws to aid you, and even if you could prove that it was made by you, I don't think the ones responsible for all that will really care. Don't give anything to the internet community if you've a desire to get credit for yourself. The place is full of idiots, as seen in many cases before. And there's no way to get to those idiots.

Of course you could and probably should bring the matter up and make it "public" on boards related to the sites and people in question. But as had been said here already, don't expect any world-shattering results out of it.

 

Tal's said how Sorcerers is always getting ripped off. That's just life i'm afraid.

 

Just adding my sympathy vote. I'm not aware of anyone ripping me off online on anything that I have put much effort into. I expect it would make me angry though. I have no problem with people using anything I have done for recreational purposes but would like to see my name left on anything I write or design.

I have had people copying my professional work and that has been very annoying and/or amusing. It's quite funny (in a bad way) when a student copies some of my work then hands it in to be assessed by me! Client's nicking my diagrams and passing them off as their own is a pain as well.

Anyway, back to the point. You do still own the copyright on the walkthrough/guide that you have written. As the copyright holder you can decide who gets to do what with it. Whether they are making money out of it or not is irrelevant. (Depending on where you are there may be some exceptions. For example in the UK you can 'infringe' copyright for purely educational purposes but the exact definitions are vague). So you could use that angle if you haven't already. The difficulty comes in proving it and the hassle of taking it further. I haven't got time now but there are articles and advice on the web about your copyrights if you want to take a look. Or just wait for one of our legal qualified posters to comment.

PS before anyone points it out, I am aware of the irony of me talking about copyright after Tal posted about me scanning the NWN map for Sorcerer's

 

Mailbombs!!

maybe a new worm named Sorcerersrevenge_win32 starting DDOS attack against the baddies

[ January 30, 2003, 19:42: Message edited by: Morgoth ]

 

First case settled.

 

Vengence is MINE sayeth the Sorcerer!

Seriously ... good luck getting credit. Just take it as a compliment. Yours was the best work out there, so they chose to "adopt" it.

Wait a sec ... how do we know you wrote it in the first place ....

 

*Sigh* ...Idiots to every start... Good that the Acrobat users can lock the content of their work behind a password. No editing, or partial copying, that way.

Hopefully they *really* take that stolen work down. Otherwise you could try to contact their ISP. Not much hope there, but worth a try.

Umm... Password... protection... page 149... or 121... or 45... or...

[ January 30, 2003, 22:11: Message edited by: Virne ]

 

I'm pretty surprised that Tal missed to mention some other "no prob, we'll just steal it from SP" from the past.
teekc, it's pretty simple, if I found out that something was taken away without my permission and normal communication wouldn't give "fruits", the copycat would simply be brought in front of the community. Not only SP community.

[ February 03, 2003, 21:25: Message edited by: Extremist ]