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AYBGerrardo
 Post subject: Anyone here a lawyer?
PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:10 pm 
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Somebody be stealing DDC's content! Just look at the Chapter Summaries to see what I mean!
http://www.watchmenfansite.com/

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it was tying it into the rape-revenge stories and making light of a verys erious sub-genre that kind of offended me.
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He would disable comments so we couldn't flame his ass.

Boo.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:30 pm 
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What a dick. He pretty much took all of my content. Practically every page of his site is my content.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:36 pm 
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Not only did he just copy and paste a bunch of shit from here, some of his stuff even links directly back here (pretty much everything in "Author Interviews").

By the way, all "dude, you're a D-bag" comments should be directed here: admin@watchmenfansite.com

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:14 pm 
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This is an outrage. I'm looking at his "Crew" page right now, and there isn't a single mention of WCM.Com anywhere on the site.

And yes, I know that page was plagiarized because I WROTE IT!!!

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This is an outrage. I'm looking at his "Crew" page right now, and there isn't a single mention of WCM.Com anywhere on the site.

And yes, I know that page was plagiarized because I WROTE IT!!!


I've emailed them and received a response. I have informed them of what content needs to be removed to avoid legal action (and, yes, the crew page was on of them.

What is more annoying is, even if they comply, all of the posters, and practically all of the other images I took time to find, size and crop, were stolen and put on his site as well. I can't do anything about that since I don't hold the copyright to those images, but it's infuriating nonetheless.

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Do you want to know the worst part?

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What's the worst part?

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The worst part is that I found it at a pretty big site:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5497
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5498

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Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their website!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:23 pm 
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Everyone bombard the webmaster's email.

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AYBGerrardo wrote:
The worst part is that I found it at a pretty big site:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5497
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5498

I think that Comic Book Movie started the site. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks that way.

They have removed all of the content I asked them to remove, so that's good.

Please don't harass these people. They cooperated, so lets just assume that it was a misunderstanding and move on.

Thanks for all of your support.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:18 am 
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AYBGerrardo wrote:
The worst part is that I found it at a pretty big site:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5497
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/watchmen/news/?a=5498

I think that Comic Book Movie started the site. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks that way.

They have removed all of the content I asked them to remove, so that's good.

Please don't harass these people. They cooperated, so lets just assume that it was a misunderstanding and move on.

Thanks for all of your support.

Great to know.

Thank you for acting, Doomsday, and thank all of you for the heads-up and the support.

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Heh...looks like they've put the stuff back up...but reworded....sentence by sentence...
It seems that the guy hasn't even bothered to look back at the book....and his writing is as plain as a kid's...
Oh dear oh dear oh dear...

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The best all of you could do is never visit his site, and promote this one even more. You can also spread the word on other forums where that site is mentioned that all of his content was stolen from this site, and that this site is the original and much better.

I doubt he'll get much traffic since the site has nothing original to offer fans.

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 Post subject: Anyone Here an Arsonist?
PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:26 pm 
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That's just some of the most pathetically lazy bullshit I've ever seen.

Bad form, dirtbags, bad form.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:06 pm 
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I just got off the phone with my lawyer. He has a few ideas.

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This is just ridiculous:
it looks like the creator has now sold it
The icing on the cake is that the site content was apparently unique. :roll:

Oh, and I've been looking up where it came from...
It's a system run by CBM whereby any old sod can create a fan site for free and might eventually get some revenue...
They do have to follow CBM's terms and conditions though...

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Journalistic Ethics and Standards for the Internet:

Your fansite is formatted to be a news site. OK, so you're not a REAL journalist. Neither are we. We're passionate fans first! Still, that doesn't mean we don't want to do our best to follow established guidelines and ethical practices. So, here they are:

1. Don't plagerize. Stealing is bad. When aggregating news content from other sites, only take a portion of someone elses work--a paragraph or two is acceptable. If you find you are taking too much you might just want to rewrite it and call it your own.
2. Always credit your source. Make sure when you use content from another site or news source that you give them credit with a link back to their site. Your newsloading tool has that ability, so use it.
3. Don't use copyrighted images. There is a lot that is free on the web, but some of it is not. Usually stuff you shouldn't take will tell you that it is copyrighted. If you aren't sure if a picture or a graphic is free to use, you may alter it by 25% and call it your own.
4. Exclusive content is GREAT! Do a lot of that. It will get your fansite noticed.

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Piece of shit dirtbag.

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