Copyright Violation
I just found a blog that copied part of a page out of my Backyard Birding site and posted it as their own without asking or giving credit! I would have been happy to have gotten credit for it and have them link to my site, but to just copy it, including the photos (one of which retained the copyright and my name in the caption – I guess they missed that one, which is how I found the site) is not okay. I could find no way to post a comment or contact the owner of the blog to let them know – they haven’t updated since June, so maybe someone else caught them first. I have my page copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which means it’s totally okay to copy it, as long as you give me credit. No credit was given for the post (only the one photograph, as far as I could tell).
Any ideas about what to do about this?
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Maggie and Cricket
Hi, I’m Maggie Wolfe Riley. This is me and my dog, Cricket, on a hike near where I live in the beautiful Eastern Sierra. My husband and I are new homeowners in Bishop, California, and we love it here.
I’ve been studying web design through Cerro Coso Online, and this semester I’m taking PHP Site Management and Theme Design with Elaine Rudis Jackson, an awesome teacher. And I’m not just saying that because this blog is part of our grade! 
This course will be an introduction to using Content Management Systems with websites, which will be very helpful for designing sites that clients can easily maintain. I’ll be posting about my learning process here.
that sucks! who even does that :S
To add insult to injury, it doesn’t look anywhere near as nice plopped onto that page as it does on the original site!
It may be that this person is woefully ignorant about copyright and just needs some edumacatin’. In any case, when in doubt, try Who Is Lookup. You can usually scare up an email address through which you can contact the site owner. Here’s the page for the referenced site: http://whois.domaintools.com/mastergardener411.com.
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