Theft of copyright

[Severina Publications]

Hi


Some of you may remember eons ago (but most of you won't hehe) when I wrote

an article for Free Pint entitled "12 Ways To Promote Your Site Offline" or

something to that effect - you can find it here

http://www.freepint.co.uk/issues/040399.htm?FreePint_Session=4321d73999e1ba9

9b06bbeb6cde23810#tips with my copyright clearly attached - March 1999 (in

fact the article was written sometime in 1998 and has been on my website

since that date)


Well, a search today on a phrase in that article shows the following sites

showing it (most in word for word format, one has changed it a little) with

no copyright!


http://www.parkerinfo.com/contact.htm (about half way down)

http://www.creativelighthouse.com/Offlinepromo.htm

http://www.gaskin-is.com/web-marketingtips.html

http://anacorteshelpdesk.com/promote.htm

http://www.sa-news.com/smallbusiness/promo.htm


Does anyone have any experience on how I should go about approaching these

poeple, proving my copyright and getting them to either remove my article or

credit me?


Is there a form letter somewhere I can use, or has anyone gone through this

before?


Thanks in advance


Regards


Nikki Pilkington

Severina Publications Limited

Because Internet Marketing Is More Than Just Great Design

http://www.severina.co.uk

nikkiseverina [dot] co [dot] uk

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