Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

[viles AT ils.unc.edu ("Charles L. Viles")]

I would guess this is pretty common. This happened to Bert Dempsey at SILS 
two or three years ago -
he found a prof at another university that had scarfed almost all of his 
online content for an
Internet class he taught. Even assignments etc. Borderline copyright trouble 
and ethically *bad*
from an academic standpoint.

Charlie Viles
e-mail: viles AT ils.unc.edu
web: http://ils.unc.edu/~viles/
snail: SILS, CB #3360, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360

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> Hey all, 
> 
>     This is certainly interesting - one of  Buildscape.com's 
> (http://www.buildscape.com/) 
> partners brought this to our attention. A site by name of 
> http://www.thebuilderspage.com/ seems 
> to have crawled all or part of our site and lifted our images, content, 
> etc.. Compare:
> 
>             http://www.thebuilderspage.com/customerservice/index.html
> with    http://www.buildscape.com/customerservice/
> 
>     It was much worse yesterday - it looked like a bizarro version of 
> Buildscape - they've been 
> busy moving our content into a new template. I haven't heard of anything 
> this blatant going on 
> before. We've been making screen shots, and our lawyers are looking into it 
> - do any of you have 
> helpful advice or witty commentary? 
> 
> Joe Komenda
> Senior Web Developer
> Buildscape.com
> 

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