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Re: Copyright infringement on www.rossbeazley.co.uk



On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 04:14 -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> The "blog" at <http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk>, which is hosted in your IP
> space, is a copy of Planet Debian <http://planet.debian.org>, apparently
> intended to gain keyword advertising revenue.
> 
> Planet Debian aggregates a large number of blogs, including mine
> (http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog - latest entry copied as
> http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk/ben-hutchings-debian-kernel-team-at-linux-plumbers-conference/open-source/).  Copyright in each of these blogs remains with their authors.  While Planet Debian has permission to copy each of them, the site owner (presumably Ross Beazley) does not.
> 
> Since there are no contact details for the site, I have no way of
> directly demanding the site owner to cease this copyright infringement.
> Therefore, please either pass on this demand or suspend hosting of
> www.rossbeazley.co.uk until it is no longer infringing.

I also encourage Planet Debian bloggers to submit a complaint at:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=dmca_complaint

The DMCA per se isn't applicable here but this seems to be the most
appropriate form.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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