eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Wed Jun 22 08:29:44 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Computer" == Computer Collector Newsletter <Computer> writes:

 Computer> I'm sure this has happened to other people here, but it
 Computer> never happened to me before, and it ticks me off.  Someone
 Computer> posted an eBay ad for this vintage handheld and blatantly
 Computer> copied 680 words of my work into the "more information"
 Computer> part of the item's description.  Above that part, they also
 Computer> stole extensively (some text and the top photo) from the
 Computer> site www.datamath.org, but at least the jerk includes that
 Computer> link... There is no credit for my work at all.

So you can complain to eBay about copyright violation.  They tend to
pay attention to that sort of thing.

    paul



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