Who Put The Mystery In Mystery Shopping?
I received an email from some crazy woman accusing me of stealing copyright protected material from her website. She alleged that one of my articles Mystery Shopping An Excellent Way To Make Extra Money was "havily" borrowed from her site. Well, if I was going to steal material, I wouldn't steal from someone who can't even spell "heavily". The email went on:
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So here's the deal. I am sure this was done inadvertently, and I do usually happily partner with other mystery shopping sites who use my work WITH MY permission and proper crediting of my material attributing it to me, posting my copyright notice and a link to my web site.
If you will make these corrections, you may use my content. If not, you must remove all such content from your site immediately as I do have an intellectual property attorney on retainer who will contact your ISP to shut
you down and we do sue to protect my intellectual property rights. I trust we can come to an amicable resolution of the matter.
Please advise your intentions immediately.
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I had a look at her website and was as certain as I could be that I had never laid eyes on it before. It was not even the sort of website I would have any reason to visit. I got someone else to look at this website and at my article and his opinion was that there was no similarity and my article, in fact, contained more information. So I emailed this woman and said I couldn't find a single paragraph or sentence we had in common and asked her to point out to me exactly what she was alleging had been copied. She emailed me back to say that she didn't know and needed the weekend to think about it.
If I had found someone had copied my original work, I'd know word for word what had been copied particularly if I was going to send threatening emails.
It seems she was just hoping to scare me into giving her a link to her pathetic website. Huh! Some chance. Let's see how she backs up her allegations.
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So here's the deal. I am sure this was done inadvertently, and I do usually happily partner with other mystery shopping sites who use my work WITH MY permission and proper crediting of my material attributing it to me, posting my copyright notice and a link to my web site.
If you will make these corrections, you may use my content. If not, you must remove all such content from your site immediately as I do have an intellectual property attorney on retainer who will contact your ISP to shut
you down and we do sue to protect my intellectual property rights. I trust we can come to an amicable resolution of the matter.
Please advise your intentions immediately.
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I had a look at her website and was as certain as I could be that I had never laid eyes on it before. It was not even the sort of website I would have any reason to visit. I got someone else to look at this website and at my article and his opinion was that there was no similarity and my article, in fact, contained more information. So I emailed this woman and said I couldn't find a single paragraph or sentence we had in common and asked her to point out to me exactly what she was alleging had been copied. She emailed me back to say that she didn't know and needed the weekend to think about it.
If I had found someone had copied my original work, I'd know word for word what had been copied particularly if I was going to send threatening emails.
It seems she was just hoping to scare me into giving her a link to her pathetic website. Huh! Some chance. Let's see how she backs up her allegations.
If you want to work from home on the internet but don't know where to start, visit my Work From Home Directory at Hunting Venus.com You'll find all the help you need.
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