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  • How do you find out who to contact when a website is using your "copyrighted" material to generate ad revenue? This website: http://www.ski-touring-mountaineering.com/tripreport/all Appears to be a collection of skiing and mountaineering trip reports for climbs and ski descents in Washington State. The shitty part is that they appear to be A) getting all of their content from the personal websites (evilfungus.com, repete.us, cascadecrusades.org, randosaigai.com) of my friends and acquaintances and B) using it to generate some potential Google ad revenue. The owners of these sites that I've spoken with are not keen on having their work used as a simple one-click revenue generator for someone who can't even ask permission to use it. The site has no contact information that I can find -- I'm wondering if I can track down the owner of the domain, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Last part -- do we have an expectation of "copyright" to this material, given the circumstances?

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    Whois info -- http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=ski-touring-mountaineering.com&prog_id=godaddy -- has all of the registrant's info (address, phone, email, etc). (Probably not necessary to repost here, so you can go there to find it.)

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Hmm, from your description I thought they were copying your material and presenting it as their own, but it looks like that site just has links to blog posts and whatnot. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that anyone can link to whatever they want to on the internet.

burnmp3s

They're only linking to the pages. They're not actually copying the content from them. This is neither illegal nor even outside the bounds of generally accepted internet usage. Do you suppose the MeFites who make posts in the Blue ask permission of the owners of the web pages they're linking to before doing so? This is no different.

DevilsAdvocate

Very fast... thanks inigo2.

Pantengliopoli

To answer your last part - I don't think you have any real expectation in this case. The site links to your friends, but doesn't take their content and host it without credit. If this counted as infringement, the internet pretty much wouldn't work anymore.

sanko

IAAL, but I am not your lawyer. Yes, you have copyright in photos you take.

kingjoeshmoe

On the technical side, if it's your own website you might be able to break their links to your site for most people by blocking their domain as a referrer. It's more commonly used to prevent people from hotlinking images, but it would work with normal links too. That method obviously won't work for places like flickr where you can't block specific referrers.

burnmp3s

Good points re: copyright and the internet, thanks all. I'll look into blocking that domain as a referring source, unless I get a positive response from the owner. Thanks!

Pantengliopoli

Check out http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3629454.htm on webmasterworld.com. Looks like Google will respond very quickly if you send them a DMCA request.

helios

Oops, I didn't realize it was just links to your content... In that case, you're probably not going to get a positive response from the owner, since he/she is doing nothing wrong. You do realize that Google also is making money by linking to your friends' pages through search results, right?

helios

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