Violating My Space
Well, folks, I’ve seen a little of this before; but I have experienced my first rather blatant copyright violation running my website.
I noticed in my website’s logs a lot of activity surrounding the image I use as a logo for The CougarZone. So, I followed the link and found it led to a website called “The Insiders” (http://houston.theinsiders.com), in particular the piece of the site that is for Houston Cougar fans called “CoogFans.com”. One of the message board moderators who calls himself “Bocephus” has been using the logo as his personal icon. That’s my art, folks, and I do have a problem with that kind of use...not to mention the bandwidth I'm paying for that is being stolen.
I wrote a note to the website asking for them to stop Bocephus from using that image. We’ll see what kind of response I get. I am willing to hire an attorney to defend my rights to that logo, though I would hope it doesn’t go that far.
I can’t know what “Bocephus” was thinking. Maybe he thought it was harmless. Maybe he thought I’d never know. But I do, and I don’t like it.
I spend a lot of my free time maintaining this website. As they say, time is money. Don’t expect me to sink as much time as I do into this thing and then have me day nothing when someone else tries to take advantage of it. If you’re read any of my blogs here, you know I’m all for “fair use”. This is not that.
I noticed in my website’s logs a lot of activity surrounding the image I use as a logo for The CougarZone. So, I followed the link and found it led to a website called “The Insiders” (http://houston.theinsiders.com), in particular the piece of the site that is for Houston Cougar fans called “CoogFans.com”. One of the message board moderators who calls himself “Bocephus” has been using the logo as his personal icon. That’s my art, folks, and I do have a problem with that kind of use...not to mention the bandwidth I'm paying for that is being stolen.
I wrote a note to the website asking for them to stop Bocephus from using that image. We’ll see what kind of response I get. I am willing to hire an attorney to defend my rights to that logo, though I would hope it doesn’t go that far.
I can’t know what “Bocephus” was thinking. Maybe he thought it was harmless. Maybe he thought I’d never know. But I do, and I don’t like it.
I spend a lot of my free time maintaining this website. As they say, time is money. Don’t expect me to sink as much time as I do into this thing and then have me day nothing when someone else tries to take advantage of it. If you’re read any of my blogs here, you know I’m all for “fair use”. This is not that.
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