eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

[Michael B. Brutman]

When it happened to my PCjr web site I contacted eBay, referred them to 
the original page, and asked them to kill the auction.  eBay had a 
specific email address for this type of complaint and they cancelled the 
auction within a handful of hours.

Nobody can possibly think that when they go to a personal website and 
lift the cover picture and text directly that they are just borrowing 
something that is public domain.  It does take a lot of time to put that 
kind of information together, and I don't want it used for commerical 
uses.  You can rewrite or link to the content, but I learned it was 
wrong to blatantly lift paragraphs back in 3rd grade. ;-0

Another seller asked me first before using the pictures and content.  I 
declined them, but did encourage them to link to the content so that the 
next buyer would have a better idea of what they were buying and how to 
get the most out of it.


Mike