eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

I was going to say that EBay has a rule against that so you could
complain.  BUT...its not like you were getting royalties on it so you
are not being monetarily damaged so its probably not worth the
trouble.  A court would say, "Yeah, he did it, but you didnt suffer
any damage."

On 6/22/05, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "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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Jim Isbell
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