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Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:23 pm
Sunny
Joined: 18 Jun 2006
Posts: 1571
Location: Massachusetts
quote:Originally posted by fortheloveofagood...:
all poems from beautywithinalways on the www.butch-femme.com have been deleted...
still pissed off...
Kx
Thanks again so much to all the admins and mods who have helped to resolve the plagiarism issues on butch-femme, Any chance we can get some help with the problems identifed on floetry.com (check my previous post)?
quote:Originally posted by Sunny:
I'm referring to totally different site, WWW.FLOETRY.COM. This is separate from Butch-Femme.com. Please see my 2nd to last note.
Thanks.
Sunny
Sunny,
I started another post here for the Floetry website along with all the information I have found thus far.
Eiregirl _________________ All poems and stories posted by Eiregirl are
Copyright 2005 - 2008 Aoibhegréine
These literary works are my property under copyright. If you wish to use my work for any purpose please ASK FIRST.
quote:Originally posted by Sunny:
Well y'all. this doesn't belong in the poetry forum, but you may want to take a moment to read further.
I recently discovered that a poem of mine had been stolen, word for word, by a MySpace member who claimed she'd written it. Upon further investigation, I discovered there were several other instances of plagiarism/copyright infringement. The most flagrant to date, however, was on a site called butch-femme.com. One member plagerized 4 of my poems. I've alerted the site, but several of you are also absolutely affected (your poems are there), including:
Mairi
Eire
LadyMoon
Xalia
Pale, I think at least one is yours too...
and I suspect more...
Below is the letter I sent to the administration of butch-femme.com. (It's a form letter I've modified from a website and is available to use without copyright infringement issues). Feel free to use my letter modifying as appropriate.
If admins/mods wish to deal with this with the butch-femme site directly, please feel free to contact me as needed.
Also, I do understand if this note needs to be moved to a more appropriate forum, but I do hope it will remain on the board long enough for those affected to take action if they choose to. For some of us, our poems are like our children and we want them back when they are stolen...
I will contact the administrator of Mels Webs to authorize release to butch-femme.com of my registration information to confirm my membership information. Please note that my email address and other contact information on Mels Webs is consistent with my butch-femme registration address.
I am the author and owner of the fore-mentioned copyrighted material. I have not authorized the use of my poems by “beautywithinalways.” My contact information is:
Lynn _________
(real name, address, phone and email)
The information contained within this message is accurate and under penalty of perjury, I attest that I am the copyright owner of the fore-mentioned poems.
Please forward to me butch-femme.com contact information so that I may enforce my rights as owner of this copyrighted material. Additionally, please remove the infringing work from butch-femme.com immediately. It is my understanding that butch-femme.com reserves the right to take legal action against copyright infringing members and/or terminate their membership. It is my hope that butch-femme.com will take prompt action to help to discourage any future copyright infringement by this member.
Please contact me upon receipt of this notice. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Lynn _______
thanx lynn for the trouble you've gone to
Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:25 pm
DarkChyldesKiss Site Admin
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Posts: 3381
Location: Inner Sanctum
Ladies,
I received a note from butch-femme who have removed all the poetry that was plagarized on their site.
Let's give a hand to all that have helped keep both our sites clearn of plagarism!
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