Copyright Infringement: What If Someone Is Stealing From You?

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"As attorneys specializing in the litigation of Internet disputes, not a day goes by that we do not hear about a small online business getting ripped off through the theft of online content. Sometimes the property taken is a website or part of a website. Other times it is certain code or an e-book. But whenever it happens, you can be sure of one thing: It has value to the thief. Perhaps the perpetrator is a programmer taking a lazy “short-cut,” or someone looking to benefit from your optimized site by getting a more favorable indexed position on a major search engine. Of course, the most common type of infringer is one who tries to take your business away from you by using your own property. Let’s walk through a process you should implement in order to assess what your next step should be when you learn that your valuable content or property has been stolen."

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Ryan Gibson - Web Author

|198.54.202.xxx |2009-03-29 15:14:08

I have recently read a book with Copy Right 2007, the invisible customer by
Kobus van Graan and Dr. Chris Crozier. Kobus van Graan worked as an employee of
my father and author Bill Gibson. The materials of his book are in many ways the
same materials of my fathers from Knowledge Brokers International, even using
the same language in examples, and clients names and references of KBI. It has
also come to our attention, he has taken the paper based processes that have
been implemented by KBI in softwares for companies, and he has made a software
out of these teachings, principles, and has his own twist. This is a little more
extreme than just stealing website content, but I was wondering what the
ramifications are for this level of theft within a program when someone who
worked for you takes your processes and even authors based on them. I did notice
the book acknowledges Bill Gibson with a thank you, but doesn't site any of the