mzalez
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posted on September 19, 2000 09:03:40 PM
I was looking at my competitions' ads when I noticed a title exactly like one I use regularly. OK, maybe it was just a coincidence. So I click on the ad, and lo and behold! The description is a nearly verbatim description of my ad for the same item that I wrote!
Isn't this copyright infringement?
I emailed the seller to let them know that it wasn't right to copy other people's ads. I gave the seller a benefit of a doubt that maybe they didn't know what they did was wrong. I'm going to keep watching them now.
If they keep copying my ads, can eBay do anything about it?
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Julesy
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posted on September 19, 2000 09:06:58 PM
http://pages.ebay.aol.com/help/community/png-copyrights.html
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mzalez
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posted on September 19, 2000 09:11:57 PM
Thanks. I emailed the link to the copy cat. I knew what they were doing couldn't be right.
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mballai
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posted on September 20, 2000 04:15:58 AM
I'd consider putting a copyright notice right in your listings--a keep off the grass sign that serves as notice. If someone then lifts your text or pix, they can't say they were not warned of your ownership.
(C)YOURNAME 2000 best put in bottom right corner of your description.
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macandjan
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posted on September 20, 2000 04:51:08 AM
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 3, 2000 08:33 PM ]
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mzalez
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posted on September 20, 2000 07:45:44 AM
hmmm, I can't get the little copyright c to work for me with either the alt key or the ctrl key either. I'll have to keep trying.
Good suggestion to put the little copyright message in the ad. But there is soooo much stuff there already, in my description. I might end up trying it though.
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Microbes
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posted on September 20, 2000 08:04:58 AM
To get the copyright symbol (or any of the other symbols) you have to use the number pad, NOT the numbers on top of the keyboard.
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on September 20, 2000 08:11:38 AM
I found another seller using my pictures last year. I emailed him about it and told him I'd contacted eBay also. He stopped using my pictures. Interestingly enough, his listings now include the © symbol.
I hope the listings and pictures he is copyrighting are his own.
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mochips
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posted on September 20, 2000 08:42:16 AM
You have every reason to be. I have used others Pics in the past, but never without their permission! (common courtesy not to mention ©.
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mzalez
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posted on September 20, 2000 08:44:46 AM
©
Oh yes, the numeric keypad works. Thanks microbes, I would have never thought of that myself.
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labbie1
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posted on September 20, 2000 03:12:49 PM
© Cool!
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Microbes
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posted on September 20, 2000 03:36:12 PM
mzalez, No problem. There used to be only 255 symbols / letters / numbers available this way(in the old DOS 3.3 days) but in windows 98 there a whole slew of them. You can get all the funny looking Russian letters this way too... Like û, æ, ect. even a ¢ sign.
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