Discussion:
What is the name of your state? Texas
We have just discovered this forum and are really happy about finding it. I have posted a few questions elsewhere but while I am here I thought I would ask a few more questions that I have been curious for some time.
We run a 17,000+ member online community. Recently, there has been another copy-cat community that has sprung up. We do not consider them a threat per-se, but they have been saying all sorts of negative things about us. In truth, many of the people that were banned from our community for abusing members were the ones that started this new one. I am not all that concerned about their mud slinging and lies, but they are starting to copy and paste our content into their forums. That we do have a problem with.
Do we have any type of fairly easy legal remedies with regards to this? We of course have contacted them and asked them to not use content from our community but they either do not respond or they laugh about it.
What would you all recommend?
Thanks!
Pam
Answer:
"Do we have any type of fairly easy legal remedies with regards to this?'
*** Easy? No. For one thing, you would have to prove that YOU own the content of the 'community posts' made by others. And that would not be 'easy'. And this doesn't even approach the issue of public posting.
"What would you all recommend?"
I recommend you have a local attorney write them a cease and desist letter. It might just scare them into not 'copying'.