Re: Stealing Free Articles and Auctioning It

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt <mooyix () gmail com>]

At least in the US, works are protected by copyright from the moment
of creation, with or without any explicit copyright notice.
Registering for copyright lets you sue if you find someone violating
your copyright, but it's not required for a work to be protected. See:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

-Brendan

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:21:05 +0200, Maxim Vexler <hq4ever () gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:22:03 +0530, Debasis Mohanty
> <mail () hackingspirits com> wrote:
> > Hey Folks,
> >
> > While my efforts are always to contribute free knowledge to the community
> > like many others, there exists many lames and craps who has mastered Ctrl-C
> > and Ctrl-V and use this lame methods to copy paste other's work and sell it
> > in their name.
> >
> > Thanks to the person who informed me that one of my article called
> > "De-Mystifying Google Hacks" is being sold at eBay without my knowledge
> > while the same article is available on my site and as well as many other
> > security sites free. Here is the link where that lame has put my article on
> > auction:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5170644689&ssPageNam
> > e=STRK:MEWN:IT
> >
> > Below is the mail of the person who informed me:
> >
> > > Hello !
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you know that a guy in canada is selling your
> > > paper on eBay for $2.45?
> > >
> > > I bought a copy, then used the techniques and fornd
> > > your own paper on:
> > >
> > >  www.infosecwriters.com/text_resources/
> > > doc/Demystifying_Google_Hacks.doc
> > >
> > >
> > > if you like, he's probably still got a listing
> > > there,,,,    let me know if i
> > > can be of any help, ok?
> > >
> > >
> > > T.P.O
> >
> > The idea of posting this here is that to make everyone aware of this
> > incident.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Debasis
> >
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> Not to give legitimation to such egoistic repulsive behavior, BUT your
> work is released under the GPL/GFDL or a similar "Free Licence", isn't
> it ?
> In fact I wasn't able to find in the document text under what licence
> it's being published, from that one could conclude that it's "Public
> Domain" which is even less restrictive then "Free Licence".
>
> Looking at the strictly legal side of the story, "Free Licence" does
> allow him to resale your work, depends of curse on the type of the
> licence & if he follows it's other requirement's (like not deleting
> the creator credits & such).
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Maxim Vexler (hq4ever).
>
> Do u GNU ?
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