Hi all
Its come to my attention that a couple of other cleaning companies have copied content from my website and reproduced it on theirs.
I'm dealing with this and its not a major problem to me, however I thought it would be good to let everyone know that if you use other peoples written material or photographs without permission then you are breaching copyright laws regardless of whether there is a copyright notice on the website.
"Copyright applies to computing and the internet in the same way as material in other media. For example, any photographs you place on the internet will be protected in the same way as other artistic works; any original written work will be protected as a literary work, and so on."
"So long as you have created a work that qualifies for copyright protection, that is it falls into one of the categories of material protected by copyright, you will have copyright protection without having to do anything to establish this. It is a requirement of various international conventions on copyright that copyright should be automatic with no need to register."
See
www.ipo.gov.uk for more info.
There are a lot on this forum, including myself, who give advice freely and willingly and misuse in this way is not appreciated.
Cheers
Diane
www.freshlymaid.co.uk
